On Monday 02 April 2007 14:17, DJ Delorie wrote: > They (either bsd or ucb) retroactively re-licensed everything > to remove the advertising clause, making it GPL-compatible. > See if it covers ngspice.
The real problem with ng-spice is that they have collected stuff from a variety of sources with trivially conflicting licenses. The fact that they have collected this stuff is the value added of ng-spice, so there isn't anything anyone can do about it. Everyone involved wants it distributed, and would certainly agree (that it is ok to distribute) if asked. None of those involved would complain, so it is safe to distribute in the sense that you are complying with the intent of all of the contributors. The problem is that certain distributions (Debian) insist that they must be absolutely strict inside to preserve the right to assert a license outside. Sometimes following legal documents to the letter has undesired harmful consequences. This one points out the importance of using a popular license, rather than making up your own. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
