On 2026-04-06 16:05 +0200, Jonathan Bergh wrote:
This may actually be what he wants - he just hasn't expressed it in the right way from a legal POV.Yeah for sure, this was my understanding, and what I meant being "I dont believe FOSS is / was his thing". It's a pity because copy-lefting it have been the easy thing to do.It would be a service to the software world to get a clarification of what he actually wants, in either the free, or non-free directions.I'll keep my eyes and ears peeled for what he's up to these days, but having looked I can't even find an email address for him these days ...
As he's ex Cambridge he should have a cantab address: He is John D Denton so [email protected] if you can find his CRS ID of the form <initials><serial number> But I just failed to find it (e.g. in published talks).I would just start by asking [email protected] if they will pass on a message. Or Howard Hodson: https://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/mmg/environmental/hodson3.html
[email protected] may still forward to him if you are lucky And yes you will need to politely explain both why a licence of some sort is beneficial (indeed necessary for even redistribution), and the basics of copyleft vs permissive. It's kind of sad that this (multall-open) was published in a repo on github 7 years ago and has not received one commit, not helped by the technical field and lack of FLOSSlicence.
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