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Re[4]: EOKeyValueCoding


From: Manuel Guesdon
Subject: Re[4]: EOKeyValueCoding
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:54:27 +0100 (CET)

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:39:21 +0000 Richard Frith-Macdonald <address@hidden> 
wrote:

 >| 
 >| On Monday, February 25, 2002, at 09:08 AM, Manuel Guesdon wrote:
 >| > We talk about dev-lib/extensions ?
 >| > I've checked a couple of file and found the following headers:
 >| > <<
 >| >    Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
 >| >    documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, 
 >| > provided
 >| >    that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both 
 >| > that
 >| >    copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
 >| >    documentation.
 >| >
 >| >    We disclaim all warranties with regard to this software, including 
 >| > all
 >| >    implied warranties of merchantability and fitness, in no event shall
 >| >    we be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages or 
 >| > any
 >| >    damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, 
 >| > whether in
 >| >    an action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising 
 >| > out of
 >| >    or in connection with the use or performance of this software.
 >| >>>
 >| >
 >| > Isn't it sufficient to include this into a LGPL'ed project ?
 >| >
 >| > If not, may be we can contact authors to ask them to release file with 
 >| > a good license ?
 >| >
 >| > GDL use it because of garbage collection features.
 >| >
 >| > Manuel
 >| > PS: I've stopped CC because I think all of us read gnustep-dev
 >| 
 >| I believe the whole process was gone through fruitlessly several years 
 >| ago.
 >| I think that gdl was not supposed to have depended on that stuff, and 
 >| Scott
 >| (on whose behalf gdl was written) decided to re-implement gdl without the
 >| extensions library dependency - but net-community ran out of money before
 >| he could do it.
 >| 
 >| It's a long time ago though, so I could well be mistaken about the 
 >| details
 >| (especially as I've always steered clear of admin stuff like copyright,
 >| and licensing etc).
 >| 
 >| Adam might remember better, but this might well have been so long ago 
 >| that
 >| Andrew was still running most of the admin side of things.
 >| 
 >| Frankly, I suspect that it would be less time consuming for someone to
 >| implement trivial GC classes in the gdl than to try to sort out the
 >| extensions library - these admin issues tend to get pretty interminable.

It's an option but what's wrong with the current 'license'/condition of use of 
extensions ?

Manuel

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