I'd like to thank Bruce Perens, my intellectual property attorney Ben Lee, and the participants in the mailing list for working to fashion a license that benefits all the parties involved. We have released graphviz under this license and shortly will distribute the source for Montage, a generic ActiveX container object. The process here really helped us to improve the license in some important ways. The ASCA seems very fair in term of what you can do with the code and any patents that may be involved, including profiting from the sale of copies of the code, without virus- or dual-license limitations. I'm delighted it turned out this way. In the future it would be reasonable to extend the OSD to cover some of these areas (minimum rights to use the code, patents, etc.) but as we gain experience in this area we may also find ways to improve the ASCA. Thanks again! Stephen North Information Visualization Research AT&T Shannon Laboratory - Florham Park, NJ
