(I'm the new maintainer of the Debian package of scsh) On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:07:18PM -0700, Barak Pearlmutter wrote: >> ;;; 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. It might be interpreted as "The Yale university" or "ex-t-project members, wherever they are now". This introduces FUD. > Free or not, this is indeed a pretty lame license. The maintainer (Daniel has been kind enough to do the job of helping upstream handle this) > might want to contact the upstream author (Olin Shivers) who I > suspect would be willing to get the license changed. All parts under Olin Shivers's copyright are already relicensed to BSD no-ad. The issue remaining are in files that bear another copyright notice, from another holder. -- Lionel
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