[pcemu-users]Licensing

[David G. <dg...@co...>]

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A few days ago, someone got in touch with me who wanted to use PCEmu in a=20
commercial product, goodness knows why. I redirected him to the list, but I=
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had a quick look at the PCEmu license, and found this:

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Permission is granted to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
software and its documentation for any non-commercial purpose,
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in the
supporting documentation.
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Oh, dear. That would make PCEmu non-DSFG free.

Given that the PCEmu licensing is a bit of a mess anyway, would it make sen=
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to try and get this sorted out? We'd need to contact all the various people=
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responsible. That would seem to be:

David Hedley & the University of Bristol (main code): custom non-free licen=
se
Myself (X menuing, assorted fiddling): MIT
Michael Hope (assorted other fiddling): unspecified --- could you make a
					declaration?
Eric Korpela (EMS): MIT
Miscellanous (MFS, doesn't work): BSD-ish

The MFS stuff is owned by Carnegie Mellon, but their license seems to be=20
compatible with the MIT license. The difficult bit would be the core code,=
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because it seems to be co-owned by the University of Bristol.

Any suggestions?

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