ns network simulator licenses

2001-07-29 Thread Will Newton
I just built a package of the ns network simulator which has the following file distributed with it. Is it free? Is it non-free? Can anyone help me understand this? The source files in NS variously include the following copyrights (with the years varying):

Re: ns network simulator licenses

2001-07-30 Thread Will Newton
On Monday 30 July 2001 6:33 pm, you wrote: > > > * Copyright (c) 2000, Nortel Networks. > > > * All rights reserved. > > > * > > > * License is granted to copy, to use, to make and to use derivative > > > * works for research and evaluation purposes. > > > * > > > * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS

Re: patents and non-free

2001-08-30 Thread Will Newton
On Thursday 30 Aug 2001 1:14 pm, Joseph Carter wrote: > Now maybe that's probably reaching a little bit given the fact that the > judges seem to be too easily swayed by lawyers who make more in a week > than some of us make in a year, but it's also reaching to say that laws > designed to keep othe

Re: Motivations; proposed alternative license (was Re: LaTeX PublicProject License, Version 1.3 (DRAFT))

2002-07-15 Thread Will Newton
On Monday 15 Jul 2002 8:42 pm, Frank Mittelbach wrote: > Instead it is the wish to give preserve for LaTeX users one of the most > fundamental features of TeX and LaTeX: the reliability that a document > produces identical results at different sites thus allowing LaTeX to be > used as an exchange

Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia

2002-07-16 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 9:48 am, Timothy Murphy wrote: > On a technical point, I would have thought > that any conceivable change to article.cls > could be encompassed in a package (.sty file), > and you could simply tell people that you think article class > is greatly improved if you usepackage{d

Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia

2002-07-16 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 9:48 am, Timothy Murphy wrote: > On a technical point, I would have thought > that any conceivable change to article.cls > could be encompassed in a package (.sty file), > and you could simply tell people that you think article class > is greatly improved if you usepackage{de

Re: apsfilter license

2002-08-26 Thread Will Newton
On Monday 26 Aug 2002 11:58 pm, Ville Muikkula wrote: > Is this allowed? apsfilterconfig terminates if the user does not accept > the license. I am under the impression that the GNU GPL does not permit > these kind of additions, that is, requiring physical goods to be sent to > the software auth