Hi,

if I've found

http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=de&q=+lang:java+license:gpl+encode64+show:WTnGdTn6cfY:1ujegCdivs8:Biz3loJNxB4&sa=N&cd=1&ct=rc&cs_p=http://www.jdistro.com/sources/jdistro-038.zip&cs_f=jdistro-038/src/com/jdistro/small/SmallMailSender.java#first

(GPLv2) can I use it or not? What do you think?

Chris

Eric Lavarde schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I've started a search on our CVS and found one more license issue about
> freemind/main/CommonsCodecBase64.java, I've documented it under
> http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Licensing#Offending_files
>
> Chris, concerning the Base64 thing, the easiest would be to add the
> commons-codec library and remove the offending source file (and of
> course, update accordingly the files referring to it).
> What do you think?
>
> Attached, you'll find my request to the original author of the files
> remaining with issues.
> If it doesn't succeeed, we'll have to go the hard way and rewrite the
> files starting from the author's files under MIT license.
>
> Cheers, Eric
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Asking for change of licenses for FreeMind files
> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:18:47 +0100
> From: Eric Lavarde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: FreeMind Project
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Hello Miika,
>
> we've noticed recently that we carry certain files with licenses
> incompatible with the overall GPLv2 of FreeMind [1].
>
> Very similar versions of the files currently in our CVS can be found on
> your mmTree site with MIT license, but I would have the merge back the
> changes, so I'd like to ask you to (re-)place the work given to FreeMind
> under MIT, GPLv2 or any other license compatible with GPLv2.
>
> Simple answer to this email with your OK will do the trick.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for your support and happy Easter,
> Eric
>
> [1] http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Licensing#Offending_files
>
>
>   

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