On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 10:45:59PM +1100, Matt Flax wrote: > I see, the thing is that ngspice is actually reporting a BSD license on > its web site : > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ngspice/ > > inside thae package however it has alot of different original packages > ... like the original Berkley liense (which ceased to maintain > publicly in the eighties or early nineties), a different license for > xspice (also part of the build) and one of the continuations of ng-spice > ... people say that ng-spice may even turn into tclspice > > so which of these licenses are the one to choose ? or are all of them > correct ?
You're going to have to go to the copyright holders for that, and get clarification from them. You may want to request that they consider re-licensing the work under a Free license while you're at it. > It is still possible to package for contrib ... right ? Only if you split the non-free stuff out from the Free stuff. As it stands, you're probably going to have to put it in non-free. - David Nusinow
