No way under United States copyright law as far as I know.
Canadian copyright law on the other hand may be different;
I believe it has provision for paying into a fund for works
whose owners cannot be found. You probably have to be very
careful about where the product is distributed.
In any case a copyright specializing lawyer should be consulted.
Eugene J. Surowitz
On 1/6/2011 9:12 AM, Bill Page wrote:
Ralf,
One might wonder if after several years of sending these requests with
absolutely no response one might wonder whether it might be possible
to simply consider Aldor to be "abandoned" by it's principles and
proceed with resurrecting it under some new organization?
Regards,
Bill Page.
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Ralf Hemmecke<[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Stephen, dear Mike,
All the best for 2011.
Since I haven't got any response so far, may I ask you again to consider
my mail from September 2009?
Thank you
Ralf
On 09/24/2009 11:38 PM, Ralf HEMMECKE wrote:
Dear Stephen, dear Mike
as you might know, I have built some scripts in FriCAS (a fork of
Axiom) (http://fricas.sourceforge.net/) in order to build libaxiom.al
from scratch. Unfortunately, I can neither distribute libaxiom.al nor
some necessary .as files under the same license as FriCAS (mBSD),
since this code is only available under the Aldor Public License 2.0.
I hereby kindly ask you to release the following files under a BSD
license (same as for the Axiom code).
https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/libax0/axiom.as
https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/libax0/axextend.as
https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/libax0/axlit.as
https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/libax0/stub.as
https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/libax0/minimach.as
https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/axllib/src/lang.as
Furthermore, in order to distribute a precompiled libaxiom.al together
with FriCAS, it would be helpful to also release
$(ALDORROOT)/lib/libfoam.al(runtime.ao)
under a BSD license. For 'runtime.ao', also releasing the sources
under a BSD license would be good, but I explicitly ask for the
release of the .ao format.
Please help the FriCAS project and don't let Aldor die.
Has meanwhile anything been done to release all of the Aldor
compiler+library sources under a GPL-compatible license?
Thank you for your time.
Yours sincerely
Ralf Hemmecke
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