[Lcd4linux-devel] lcd4linux licensing issue

[Michael R. <re...@eu...>]

Hi Folks, especially Luk,

There's a licensing issue with the Evaluator, which I tried to solve 
months ago, but failed. As there raised a discussion on the lcdproc 
mailing list about such issues lately, this came to my mind again.

Luk, as you're a debian maintainer, and as debian seems to be very 
pedantic about licensing, I hope you can answer her (or at least know 
someone who can).

The files are evaluator.c and .h
The code based on something I found in the net, but was heavily modified 
by me (the original code could only handle numeric values, for example, 
and I did add lots of new levels and expressions.)


The original copyright statement reads:

/***************************************************************************
** 
    ** EE.C         Expression Evaluator 
        **
** AUTHOR:      Mark Morley 
   ** COPYRIGHT:   (c) 1992 by Mark Morley 
      ** DATE:        December 1991 
        **
** HISTORY:     Jan 1992 - Made it squash all command line arguments 
   **                         into one big long string.
**                       - It now can set/get VMS symbols as if they
**                         were variables.
**                       - Changed max variable name length from 5 to
**              Jun 1992 - Updated comments and docs                     **
**
** You are free to incorporate this code into your own works, even if it 
** is a commercial application.  However, you may not charge anyone else 
** for the use of this code!  If you intend to distribute your code, 
  ** I'd appreciate it if you left this message intact.  I'd like to 
    ** receive credit wherever it is appropriate.  Thanks! 
      **
** I don't promise that this code does what you think it does...         **
**
** Please mail any bug reports/fixes/enhancments to me at: 
  **      mo...@ca... 
     ** or 
        **      Mark Morley 
          **      3889 Mildred Street 
            **      Victoria, BC  Canada 
               **      V8Z 7G1 
                  **      (604) 479-7861 
                    **
***************************************************************************/

I could not reach the author, I tried several times (but per email only, 
not snail mail).

What should we do here?



TIA, Michael

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