Re: [pcemu-users]Licensing

[Michael H. <mic...@ju...>]

I'm not too worried.  For philosophical reasons I prefer the GPL, 
followed by the LGPL, but I'll go with what everyone else chooses.

The MIT seems to be compatible with the BSD license and a little bit 
weaker.  Either seems fine.

-- Michael


On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 05:33 AM, David Given wrote:

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> A few days ago, someone got in touch with me who wanted to use PCEmu 
> in a
> commercial product, goodness knows why. I redirected him to the list, 
> but I
> had a quick look at the PCEmu license, and found this:
>
> - ---snip---
> 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.
> - ---snip---
>
> Oh, dear. That would make PCEmu non-DSFG free.
>
> Given that the PCEmu licensing is a bit of a mess anyway, would it 
> make sense
> to try and get this sorted out? We'd need to contact all the various 
> people
> responsible. That would seem to be:
>
> David Hedley & the University of Bristol (main code): custom non-free 
> license
> 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
> compatible with the MIT license. The difficult bit would be the core 
> code,
> because it seems to be co-owned by the University of Bristol.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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