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From: Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt <hhs@cbs.dtu.dk>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 11:46:41 +0100 (MET)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jon Lambert wrote:
>
> What was the result?
Still pending :-) I have been reluctant to make the option until i
knew what the result would be. I am however currently much more
positive to the idea than i was at first.
> There are at least a dozen publically available codebases that are
> amenable to commercial exploitation. Some are GPLed. Some are
> free. Some are licensible. Why the concentration on Diku and
> Diku-derived servers?
This is indeed an issue that is specialized to this
codebase/licence. Never the less it does concern some people, which is
why it has been taken up on a sepetare mailing list for discussion.
> No this is illegal and dare I suggest unethical. There isn't any
> way one can GPL a DIKU derivative codebase short of the Diku authors
> GPLing it themselves.
Which is the plan. Starting with us, copyright holders of re-releases
may choose to re-release their code under GPL as well.
Hans Henrik Stærfeldt | bombman@diku.dk | work: hhs@cbs.dtu.dk |
Address: |___ +45 40383492 __|__ +45 45252425 __|
DTU, Kemitorvet, | Scientific programmer at Center for Biological |
bygn 208, CBS. | Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark|
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