Re: [Lcd4linux-devel] lcd4linux licensing issue

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

Hi there,

> The only problem I spot is the part "However, you may not charge anyone 
> else for the use of this code!"
Too bad, but there's a positive aspect, too (see later)

> There are many possibilities:
> 
> - non-free
> - contrib (depend on Evaluator) and (changed) Evaluator in non-free
> - main either by removing Evaluator (possibly rewrite the code from 
> scratch) or by making Evaluator free (contact the author by whatever 
> means to change license, but I don't think he will change it as the 
> license is pretty clear and you haven't got an answer by e-mail :-()
I like none of them.

I will do a rewrite from scratch, and optimize the whole thing so that it
- uses our Namespace::delimiter
- does a pre-compile of the expression and stores it as a tree

I found a quite old code from myself which does basically the above. 
I'll go for it this weekend.


bye, Michael

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