Re: [gNewSense-users] [Fwd: Re: texfont.C and texfont.h license]

[ben]

hello,

on 2009-11-09 i contacted kilgard to ask him to license his code under
BSD 3clause license. no answer yet, and i doubt that there'll be one.

kilgards answer not giving any specific free license, gns should stop
distributing his files.

ben


ben wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> attached you'll find Mark Kilgard's answer to my request of him freeing
> his code.
> 
> Greetings
> ben
> 
> 
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> Subject:
> RE: texfont.C and texfont.h license
> From:
> Mark Kilgard <address@hidden>
> Date:
> Mon, 9 Nov 2009 10:35:20 -0800
> To:
> ben <address@hidden>
> 
> To:
> ben <address@hidden>
> 
> 
> Ben,
> 
> Do whatever you want with the code but do NOT put the restrictive GPL license 
> on it.
> 
> - Mark 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ben [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 10:22 AM
> To: Mark Kilgard
> Subject: texfont.C and texfont.h license
> 
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> Dear M. Kilgard,
> 
> the package boinc, which is contained in the gNewSense (gNS) [1]
> GNU/Linux distribution, includes two files
> texfont.C
> and
> texfont.h
> written and copyrighted by you (see [2] for bug report).
> 
> The license you distribute your software under is nonfree in the
> definition of the Free Software Foundation. This means that your files
> would have to be removed from gNS, since gNS aims to be a free distribution.
> 
> Before removal I would like to kindly ask you if it'd be possible to you
> to distribute the files under a license which allows modification and
> distribution of modified versions of your files. This would enable the
> gNS developers to keep distributing the package.
> 
> Kind regards
> Benedikt Ahrens
> 
> [1] http://www.gnewsense.org
> [2] http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00362
> 
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