There is a comment in one of the commits from 2005 (OmniBase-jf.2) that
suggests that OmniBase had a free with restrictions license:

http://www.squeaksource.com/@dZ70JMB-R7RDi4-m/Ox-ysyAT

Also, licensing was messier these days, some of that mess creeps up until
today.


Esteban A. Maringolo


On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 2:30 PM PAUL DEBRUICKER <pdebr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> From my reading, it seems like whoever posted OmniBase to github 9 years
> ago added the MIT license without permission and the OmniBase library
> remains closed source.
>
>
>
>
> > On Aug 23, 2022, at 6:46 AM, s...@clipperadams.com wrote:
> >
> > I’m not fully understanding the issue.
> >
> >
> >
> > Is it that:
> >
> >       • The repos are violating the library license (other than the
> erroneous MIT license, which could easily be updated)?
> >
> >       • The fact that OmniBase is not open source violates a principle
> you have in continuing to host it?
> >
> > If the latter, may I suggest you offer to transfer the repo(s) to a
> willing party?
> >
>

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