Me wrote: > > provide a last archive with another license. My question is: what > > keeps cthugha from being free?
Thank you for your reply (and getting it from the archive and going through it). You nearly answered the q. that i had on mind: What is the quickest, most painless way (for him) to get a quite unresponsive ex-upstream maintainer to provide a free license? > If he is moving on, just ask him to public domain it just as the > people did before him. Thanks. Now for the details: > The remainder of the source (not already public domain, no explicit > author's copyright notice) is Copyright 1995-97 by Harald > Deischinger. > The source code may be copied freely and may be used in other I think this may remain? While this has to be changed: > programs under the following conditions: > It may not be used in a commercial program without prior > permission. Please credit the author (in general, credit Cthugha, > Torps Productions and Harald Deischinger) as the source of the code. What about the begging for credits? I never understood why this is not in DFSG 4.). Is that against 9.? It is also done in the hello package. However, i find it nearly impossible for a non-native english speaker to completely understand even the DFSG. I try often, but heading and content of each paragraph appear to me to have 'nothing in common'. (What does 7. mean "need for execution of an additional license'. I execute programs for a long time, but admit i never got this sentence.) As much as i try, i have sometimes difficulties following even a german lawyer. I never restricted my own software and, honestly, i feel quite secure with my compiler and without your help, i would rather rewrite this program from scratch before i'd start to sort out all that legal stuff. That's why i was asking in the first place. So: Thanks for your help - i'm afraid i will need a little more (decrescendo to whispering ... ;) Greetings, martin
