Re: [perl #43037] Bad license in perl distribution
by Michael Schroeder other posts by this author
May 23 2007 4:15PM messages near this date
Re: [perl #43037] Bad license in perl distribution
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On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 08:27:18PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> A cursory search would seem to indicate that there are multiple
> different versions of the original file under apparently different
> terms:
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> http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=file%3Aargproc%5C.c
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> Specifically the version distributed with ctags is already GPL'd.
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> Would it do to replace the version we have with one of the GPL'd ones
> and then reapply the original changes?
Sure that would solve the problem for us, because we don't build a
vms binary and GPL allows free redistribution of the source.
But note that the Artistic license is not compatible to the GPL...
Cheers,
Michael.
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