Re: More mmcache concerns

2005-01-09 Thread Elizabeth Fong
Apparently the issue is starting to come up on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=986362&forum_id=236228 We need to chime in now, and point out that MMCache is undistributable with a GPL license.

Re: More mmcache concerns

2005-01-06 Thread Jonathan Oxer
Hi Florian, > How much code are we talking about? Perhaps a clean room > reimplementation is the cheapest solution. Unfortunately a non-trivial amount (about 15k lines), and not simple code either - it's pretty tightly written, and it requires an intimate knowledge of the internal workings of th

Re: More mmcache concerns

2005-01-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Joel Aelwyn: > Or convince someone (quite possibly the origional author) that it is worth > their time to re-implement it. Doing work for hire means you don't own that > copy, but it is in no way a prohibition against you making another copy on > your own time, even if it were to look almost com

Re: More mmcache concerns

2005-01-06 Thread Joel Aelwyn
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:14:45AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:57:12PM -0800, Elizabeth Fong wrote: > > Jonathan Oxer: > > > The big question though (and this is where legal advice may be required) > > > is what happens to copyright when the copyright owner ceases to

Re: More mmcache concerns

2005-01-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Elizabeth Fong: > So... I guess the question is, what _can_ we do? How much code are we talking about? Perhaps a clean room reimplementation is the cheapest solution.

Re: More mmcache concerns

2005-01-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:57:12PM -0800, Elizabeth Fong wrote: > Jonathan Oxer: > > The big question though (and this is where legal advice may be required) > > is what happens to copyright when the copyright owner ceases to exist? It is auctioned off by the liquidators, along with all other prop