JasPer License Issues: Some Potentially Good News
Hi Folks:
[I have tried to include everyone that was involved in the discussions
on the JasPer software license on the distribution list for this
email. Quite a number of people were involved. I hope that I did not
miss anybody.]
I have some potentially good news. Image Power seems to be agreeable
to revising the JasPer software license to address the concerns raised
by you and other members of the open-source community. I have appended
the first preliminary draft of the new license to this email for your
feedback. I would very much appreciate your comments, as it would be a
waste to go through the trouble to change the license for you folks if
the result will not meet your needs.
BTW, the new license was largely copied from the open-source-certified
X11 license. Image Power has added condition 3 and I wonder if this is
alright. The IBM Public License (certified by the Open Source
Initiative) also seems to have a similar type of clause. So, this
appears not to go against the spirit of open source.
Thanks,
Michael
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Michael Adams, Assistant Professor
Dept. of Elec. and Comp. Engineering, University of Victoria
P.O. Box 3055 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, V8W 3P6, CANADA
E-mail: mdadams@ece.uvic.ca, Web: www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams
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JasPer License Version 2.0
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Copyright (c) 2001-2003 Michael David Adams
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