Re: [ng-spice-devel] License issues
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Here is the letter from the mailing list archive. I suggest you
> hold off sending it until we find out the specifics of the
> incompatiblity of the SPICE license with the GPL. I have contacted
> Richard Stallman in regard to this and he has replied asking for
> a copy of the current SPICE license. I send the contents of the
> COPYING file from the rework-10 release.
Ok, you are right.
>
> When we get RMS's opinion as to what is wrong with the current
> license we can then explain to UCB what specifically is wrong,
> how it can be fixed and the benefits of fixing it.
There is a page on the GNU website concerning this problem:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses
> This should be relatively easy to sell to UCB. We will make the point
> that there are numerous commercial verisons of SPICE based on their
> code.
They have already a new version of the BSD license, the real problem is
that it cannot be applied automatically to old software, there must be a
some form of formal act.
> The proliferation of many versions has resulted in
> incompatibility between versions and that we hope to generate a free,
> open source industry standard verion of SPICE. Most importantly,
> this will provide students with a fully free, uncrippled, open
> source SPICE.
Sangiovanni was interested and asked me (us) to sedn a leter to Berkeley
about our project, may be thay even link us in their spice page.
Paolo
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