At Sun, 19 Aug 2001 04:42:14 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > Thanks. I would make xipmsg with unofficial group patch. > > Verify that unofficial group patch is not GPL. > xipmsg is BSD license with advertizement clause.
Yes, I notice this. Unofficial group patch has no mention about its license. I imagine they also released under BSD license, but, sure, I must contact him and indentify its licence. > > > Also, please check gipmsg, the last time I checked, it did not have a > > > packagable license. > > > > Hm, I check gipmsg. It seems that it cannot be package... > > Alternatively, there is gtkipmsg. It seems it's ok > > to be package, so I plan to intent to package gtkipmsg. > > neither gtkipmsg nor gipmsg is suitable to be packaged. > I have contacted the upstream authors to no avail. > > They have an invalid licensing clause mixing BSD with advertizing clause > and GPL, which is bad news. Ouch! I didn't notice this. You are right that they mix BSD with *advertizing clause* and GPL. Hmm, all xip messenger family has this problem... Thanks for your indication. I missed. Regards, -- gotom
