Follow-up Comment #4, sr #105871 (project administration): fre, 25 05 2007 kl. 21:30 +0000, skrev Sylvain Beucler: Follow-up Comment #3, sr #105871 (project administration): > > > copyright 1991, all rights reserved. > > You can use this code as long as my name stays with it. > > > > (This seems incompatible to me). > > Hmmm, yes, unfortunately. "Keeping the name" is compatible (you must > reproduce the copyright notices anyway, as stated in the GNU GPL) - but the > author only say "use" which is vague. It should be "use, modify and > distribute" :/
I guess I'll drop that piece of code, if I am unable to get in contact with the author. > > Copyright (C) 2002 Piotr Kucharski > > BSD licence applies. Yeah! > > Indeed that's ambiguous. > > But well, http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license.html says that in 1999 UCB > made a global license change from original BSD to modified BSD. This code from > 2002 is not precising exactly which BSD license it sues so arguably this can > be interpreted at "modified BSD". > Contacting the author won't hurt though. I'll try to find his email and write him a note that if he doesn't object, I'll assume hes reffering to the modified license. There is another problem though .. not all files have a copyright notice. Esp. some of the .h files, and the text-files doesn't. There is a README that says this though: (irc2.11.1p1/doc/README) Other files of interest: LICENSE - license agreement ChangeLog - log of source changes The LICENSE file is the GPLv1. > When you combine several pieces of code released under different licenses to > create a "combined" (or "derived") work, all licenses need to be compatible > between each others. So, if its all GPL and BSD-modified I should be fine, I guess. What will the copyright of my project be? I guess if I change the file with the BSD-copyright, I'll have to make my changes to that file available under the BSD-license, while my changes to the GPL files will be under the GPLv2 or later. (Will change it to V3 when that comes out). > The GNU project maintains a list of licenses and their compatibility with the > GNU GPL, check http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html for details. I'll check that out, if I encounter other licenses. I hope I have them all covered now though. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?105871> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
