RE: RFS: spim
Just to confirm: I give permission to any open source project to modify and distribute spim and xspim, so long as my name and copyright remains on the code.
/Jim
James Larus
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-----Original Message-----
From: paul.is.wise@gmail.com [mailto:paul.is.wise@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Paul Wise
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 5:59 PM
To: Jim Larus
Cc: debian-legal@lists.debian.org; Mackenzie Morgan
Subject: Re: RFS: spim
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Jim Larus <larus@microsoft.com> wrote:
> OK, let's make this simple.
>
> The Debian project has permission to distribute spim and xspim.
...
> Is this sufficient?
Great, thanks!
Some permission to modify and distribute modified versions would be useful in the case a bug needs to be patched in a stable release.
More importantly, Mackenzie, I imagine Ubuntu will want the same permissions as Debian?
> I'm planning on changing the license in the next release -- but not GPL, probably BSD or MIT.
That would be much much better.
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pabs
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