Re: [Plib-devel] Any resolution on the license?

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Paul Bleisch wrote:
> 
> I think I read all of the messages about changing the
> license for use in embedded things (consoles, etc...),
> but I don't recall what the final outcome of that
> discussion was.

There were two things that struck me:

* Two significant contributors indicated that they didn't
  want to change the license - and since I can't (and
  wouldn't) replace their contributions, the licence
  cannot be changed even if I personally wanted it to
  change.

* Since Dave is actually using PLIB on a console himself
  and is a contributor who DOESN'T want to change the
  license - I really have to believe that there is a way
  to stick to the spirit and law of LGPL and still work
  on PS-2.

So, the conclusion was that the status quo reigns.

There was some discussion of using the REALLY ancient
versions of the separate libraries that were floating
around without a specific license before I bundled them
into PLIB and placed them under LGPL.  I have no objection
to people doing that (under US copyright law, I still retain
copyright on those versions and you'd have to get my
permission to use them - that permission is hereby granted)
- but I've checked everywhere I can think of and I don't have
copies of PUI, etc from that far back.

I don't really relish the idea of buggy old versions of
PUI (especially) from that era floating around on the web,
but so long as people know what they are doing and don't
do anything stoopid like setting up a non-licensed PLIB
in competition with the modern LGPL'ed version, I can live
with that.

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