I agree, I definitely have better things to do with my time that deal with licensing issues, but it still needs to get done. :)
And actually, since I want to spend as little time as possible dealing with legal issues, I think it's better to just not use software where my rights and obligations aren't clearly spelled out. (Or at least, not use it for anything I plan to share with other people.) For all I know, JDB could have been written by evil patent trolls. There's no author information, no copyright notice... Even http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/JDB/Announcement was posted by "anonymous". (The main page does mention ChrisBurke and OlegKobchenko... But are they the authors of JDB, or just of that page?) On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > J source is available under GPL, but historically earlier versions > have been available under other, simpler licenses. > > Note also that the GPL's self propagating aspect only applies if you > propagate the GPL'd code. > > Finally, note that copyright needs to be taken with a few grains of > salt. Each creative community has its own traditions for what kind of > copying is "acceptable" and "unacceptable". Mostly the rules boil down > to: be fair and avoid litigious situations. > > And, in fact, courts tend to follow this practice also - first looking > for people to make reasonable compromises before getting into the time > consuming (and expensive) process of going through the facts behind > each party's arguments about what's going on. > > Anyways, J is available under several licenses, so your "do they share > J's license" question isn't really well-formed. But it's extremely > unlikely that any reasonable use of JDB is going to land you in court. > And the same applies to the rest of JAL. > > I think we all have better things to do with our time. > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Michal Wallace > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are these two libraries considered part of J? > > If so, do they share J's license? > > If so, am I required to put any code that uses JDB under the GPL? > > > > What about the rest of JAL? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
