Re: Looking for a sponsor
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On Tuesday 15 January 2002 17:38, you wrote:
> David Given <dg@tao-group.com> cum veritate scripsit:
> > vbcc is *non-free*. (The upstream author wants to keep a license that
> > disallows the distribution of modified versions; I got special permission
> > to distribute a tar.gz version of the source to go with the Debian
> > patch.) It's almost, but not quite, lintian clean; it produces one error
> > ---
>
> Have you considered asking the upstream to
> change the license ?
I did my best to persuade him, but he doesn't want to. Besides, there are
chunks of other licensed code in there; I did a code generator for it, which
is BSDd; the preprocessor comes from lcc; etc. Non-free is the only
possibility, I'm afraid.
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