[Sixpack-development] Re: bp licence

[David M. K. <dmk...@uc...>]

Pat,

We have tried to contact him, but havent been able to get in touch with 
him.  To avoid problems, we have placed new or replacement modules in a 
separate directory.  I don't think the problem is that serious, but it 
would be nice to resolve it.

David


Dumas Patrice wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am very interested in bp/sixpack. I figured out that development is done
>(in cvs) in sixpack2, thus I refer to files in that dir only.
>
>The trouble I have is that it seems to me that the files coming from bp
>are not under a free software licence. I quote:
>
># Permission is given to use and distribute this package without charge.
>
>It is not permitted to modify these files. It implies that one should not
>use code from these files to make its own code, and do from scratch
>without looking prior at the bp code.
>
>I am rather uncomfortable with this licence. Did somebody try to contact
>Dana Jacobsen and ask him to relicence his files under a free software 
>licence ?
>
>Pat
>
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