Re: [ng-spice-devel] proposal for the letter development


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From Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd@zip.com.au>
Date Mon, 01 May 2000 08:29:22 +0000
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Francesco Doni wrote:
> 
> The letter looks like the one we were looking for, am I right?
> I think that Erik made an important editing pass, and I agree
> with his conceptual as well as opportunity changes.
> Is there any other feedback?
> should any feedback arise, in order not to overlap,
> I would ask Erik to be our reviewer, to this purpose

Thats fine by me.

> I suggest to establish a deadline for comments.

I agree. I would hope that it would be within the next week or two.

<snip>

> I pointed out that the licensing problem was not so simple to solve
> regardless the mentioned merge incompatibility between BSD and GPL.
> What do you think about?

I agree; the current license is tricky. Thats why I am hoping they will 
go the route of licensing under the current license or the GPL at the 
choice of the user.

> I was fostering a sort of GPL2 license in order to maintain
> the "educational, research and non-profit purposes" requiring
> commercial purpose users to ask for a written permission, for instance.

Unfortunately this is still incompatible with the GPL and we therefore 
cannot use libreadline. The GPL does not allow any restrictions other
than the restrictions of the GPL. The libreadline issue is the thing 
that got me dragged into this licensing morass to begin with :-).

Ciao,
Erik
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