From: Peter V. E. <pva...@de...> - 2000-11-14 19:23:04
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On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:31:15AM -0500, David Young wrote: > >> The COPYRIGHT file I found in zebu-3.5.2.tar.gz (found on > >> http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~konrad/software/) states three authors: > >> William M. Wells III, Hewlett-Packard Company, and Joachim Laubsch. > >> Unfortunately, the parts by the first author - this includes large > >> parts of the code - are not Free (DFSG). > > Peter> Aia. Sh*t. I based my conclusions on a ChangLog that stated: > > Peter> | Tue Mar 5 09:58:21 1996 Joachim Laubsch > Peter> <la...@hp...> | | * Release 3.4.7 | * COPYRIGHT: > Peter> added GNU Copyleft | * COMPILE-ZEBU.lisp corrections for > Peter> Allegro > > Peter> So we have to ask Wells to free his code too, or redo it? > > Peter> Not good... > > Do we? Isn't the presence of the GPL enough? I'm certainly no legal > expert... The COPYRIGHT file only frees the Laubsch-written code, the code written by Wells is under a non-DFSG compliant license. ( export law stuff and there is "non-commercial user" in the header) Try to contact Mr Wells and kindly ask if he can reconsider (as part of the code is copyright hp, I fear not) Groetjes, Peter -- It's logic Jim, but not as we know it. | pva...@de... "God, root, what is difference?" - Pitr| "God is more forgiving." - Dave Aronson| http://cvs2.cons.org/~pvaneynd/ |