Re: possible licensing issues with some scsh source files
> ;;; 2. Users of this software agree to make their best efforts (a) to return
> ;;; to the T Project at Yale any improvements or extensions that they make,
> ;;; so that these may be included in future releases; and (b) to inform
> ;;; the T Project of noteworthy uses of this software.
This clause is moot, because "The T Project at Yale" has not existed
for the last fifteen years. So a best effort would be a seance at
which a psychic medium channels the spirit of a project past.
Free or not, this is indeed a pretty lame license. The maintainer
might want to contact the upstream author (Olin Shivers) who I suspect
would be willing to get the license changed. If he gives you any
trouble feel free to invoke my name as follows: "if these lame clauses
aren't removed, Barak Pearlmutter cannot guarantee that he will not
give your phone number to his ex-wife." That should get results.
--
Barak A. Pearlmutter
Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
http://www-bcl.cs.may.ie/~barak/
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