Hello, > I failed to find any license at that home page. Can you please advise me > on how can I verify that HotEqn has an appropriate, open source license?
Use link to the sources: http://vclab.atp.rub.de/Src/GPL/HotEqn/HotEqnSrc.zip The source files contain following text: Copyright 2006 Stefan Müller and Christian Schmid This file is part of the HotEqn package. HotEqn is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; HotEqn is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. As the home page belongs to the copyright holders, the fact they distribute the binaries without referencing GPL does not violate the license itself. Look at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ReleaseUnderGPLAndNF : > (Question) I would like to release a program I wrote under the GNU GPL, but I > would like to use the same code in non-free programs. > (Answer) To release a non-free program is always ethically tainted, but > legally there is no obstacle to your doing this. If you are the > copyright holder for the code, you can release it under various > different non-exclusive licenses at various times. I add also the mail I got from Prof. Schmid > Sehr geehrter Herr Polivaev, > > ich kann Ihnen nun mitteilen, dass das GPL Src package von HotEqn unter > > http://vclab.atp.rub.de/Src/GPL/HotEqn/HotEqnSrc.zip > > zur Verfügung steht. > > MfG > Chr. Schmid > I hope that this information is enough for verifying the license. Regards, Dimitry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Freemind-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freemind-developer
