Re: rus-ispell license
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 11:51:43PM -0600, David Starner wrote:
> > No it doesn't. Permission to use, distribute, and modify are all needed
> > (and provided..) This is free, though the license could use a once-over
> > because of what's missing in the translation.. It's not GPL compatible,
> > if that matters to you.
>
> What do you mean "what's missing in the translation". The translation
> (assuming it was such - it could be the author wrote it in English)
> seemed fine.
The author's English is not as good as his Russian, I suspect. =)
> I'm not going to argue whether we have implied permission to sell it. If
> the author is flexible, it would still be nice to have explicit permission
> to distribute for money, IMO.
I don't see an implicit permission to sell. The permission is there in
the license. It says you may do those things and it gives no limitations
on doing them.
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