I've added license information to all of the packages in the main distribution.
Thanks! At Sat, 31 Aug 2013 07:10:21 +0100, Lawrence Woodman wrote: > Hello, > > I have been trawling through the packages at: > http://pkg.racket-lang.org > > And have found that very few of the packages have any licensing information > and are effectively proprietary software, despite what their authors may > have > intended. I can therefore study them, but not use them without breaking > copyright law. For a hobbyist this is easy enough to overlook, but for > anyone > wanting to use Racket commercially this means that most of the packages are > unusable without contacting the authors and seeing what terms they are > prepared to license their code under. > > This is a big enough pain for packages outside the main distribution, > but I have > also noticed that packages in the main distribution do not contain licence > information either. A typical example is: > https://pkg.racket-lang.org/info/html-lib > > In html/html.rkt, it contains: > copyright by Paul Graunke June 2000 AD > > But has no licensing info anywhere in the package. This was presumably LGPL > code that was extracted to a package from the main racket repository. > Without > that licensing information it contravenes the terms of the LGPL and more > importantly, to me, means I can't use it as it hasn't been licensed for > use by anyone > through that package. > > > > Thanks > > > Lorry > > > -- > vLife Systems Ltd > Registered Office: The Meridian, 4 Copthall House, Station Square, Coventry, > CV1 2FL > Registered in England and Wales No. 06477649 > http://vlifesystems.com > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
