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Re: rbtree licence dilemma

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead dot org>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew dot lunn at ascom dot ch>
Cc: Jonathan Larmour <jifl at ecoscentric dot com>, eCos Maintainers <ecos-maintainers at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:01:46 +0000
Subject: Re: rbtree licence dilemma
References: <20030121084412.GE9033@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> <3E2C9F52.70803@eCosCentric.com>

andrew.lunn@ascom.ch said:
> What about the re-licencing issue, assuming we decide to go that way.
> If you cannot convince some company to use the modGPL version of eCos
> and instead decide to offer a version with another licence, it will
> probably no longer be "free" and so this exception fails. I also
> guess, that since we don't hold the copywrite, we cannot change the
> license on this part anyway? So, it would have to be removed.


/me Googles... How about http://users.footprints.net/~kaz/kazlib.html ?

We'd need to contact the author and ask to make sure he wouldn't then want 
_all_ users of it in eCos to mail him as described in the MUST_READ file 
(attached), but I suspect that won't be a problem.

--
dwmw2

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References:
- Re: rbtree licence dilemma
  - From: Andrew Lunn
- rbtree licence dilemma
  - From: Jonathan Larmour

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