On Thu, 29 Jun, 2006 at 09:57PM -0400, Stephen Sinclair spake thus: > >> check out the STK. > > > >I don't think this is free software, btw. > > They aren't too specific about the license but I think it's "public domain". > I should ask Gary to be more clear about that on the site... > > Anyways, it is included as a package in Debian (libstk0c2a), and they > are one of the best judges on software Freedom I know of.
Hmm. No Gentoo ebuild in the normal tree, though. Unusual for Debian to have something Gentoo doesn't. > Here's the copyright file: > > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/s/stk/stk_4.2.0-9/libstk0c2a.copyright > > Debianized by Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on > Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:55:08 +0200. > > http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/stk/ > > Authors: Perry Cook and Gary P. Scavone > > Copyright: > This software was designed and created to be made publicly available > for free, primarily for academic purposes, so if you use it, pass it > on with this > documentation, and for free. > > But you're right in the sense that they aren't specific in their > license about derivative works, which is an important part of the GPL. > > Steve >
