Le 25 juil. 08 à 14:39, David Chisnall a écrit :

> I just got a few warnings from the BKExtension headers, so I looked
> to try to find the cause.
>
> It turns out that this header, and all other Blocks files start with
> this line:
>
> //  Created by Jesse Grosjean on 1/5/05.
> //  Copyright 2005 Hog Bay Software. All rights reserved.
>
> This means we do NOT have any legal right to redistribute the files.
> These classes don't seem to be used anywhere in CoreObject, and so I
> will remove them from trunk unless someone contacts the author and
> gets an explicit license for us to use it.

Yes, there is a license problem here. iirc the license was BSD, not  
really sure though. I need to check. May be Yen-Ju can tell us?

> The code (a very different version to the one we have in svn) is now
> hosted on Google Code, and the license for the project says 'Apache
> 2.0' but this does not apply to the version we have, and the
> individual files still contain a contradictory copyright notice.

This code could eventually be interesting in future, that's why I have  
kept it until now.
Anyway, the best is to remove it for now, since this API won't be made  
public for 0.4.

Cheers,
Quentin.
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