academic software without licence
Hello,
What exactly must be done when trying to package an academic piece of
software, which typically has no copyright but mentions such as :
- The program is provided "as is." There is no warranty.
- may be used without restriction
- available to everyone, with no restrictions (and of course no
warranty)
etc... ?
In addition, they are often unmaintained, as the author(s) moved to an
other project. This is not a problem because such software is usually
well tested, widely used and generally useful. Think of "classics" such
as the Boyer-Moore theorem
prover, for instance. But naturally, this cause asking for relicensing
problematic.
There is documentation on which kind of license are free, but the only
suggestion I saw for this problem was to ask this list :(; So here I am.
If there is need to contact the authors, please point me to a model for
this kind of demands.
Thanks
Antoine Mathys
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