[Gcl-devel] Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GCL compliance and Bill Schelter

[Mike Dewar]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:08:05PM +1000, Mike Thomas wrote:
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> To clarify, I underatand that (IBM or NAG?) released the code with licencing
> conditions on it which cannot be changed.
NAG released the code, with IBM's agreement, under the BSD license.  We
agreed on this license for a number of reasons which are frankly none of
your business.
 
> From a practical point of view, I would hate to look a gift horse (free BSD
> Axiom)in the mouth when the gift came from such an appalling example (IBM,
> at the very least from the Thomas J Watson years apparently) of the
> subjugation of moral responsibility to commercial and 20th century right
> wing political imperatives.
The "gift", as you call it, came from NAG, not IBM.  Perhaps you would
like to retract this statement or clarify in what way we are "an
appalling example of the subjugation of moral responsibility to
commercial and 20th century right wing political imperatives".

Mike Dewar
NAG Ltd.

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