Re: [ng-spice-devel] Licensing
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Gillespie, Alan wrote:
>
> Since Jon is a representative of a commercial company,
> which is presumably "closed source" as far as his
> enhancements are concerned, I was wondering what the GPL
> means for his application.
>
> For instance, I submitted a bunch of model bug fixes
> to ng-spice recently.
>
> Can Jon use those in his own version of spice, without
> making his version open source ?
Since the license of ngspice is BSD, I think that he can
include your changes without releasing an open source
version. Anyway he must state that there is your code
there (eg: includes code from Alan Gillespie).
>
> If he can't, can he come to an agreement with me, since
> they were originally my fixes, or have I lost the right
> to allow someone to use those fixes in proprietary code ?
Mostly yes, I think, but I am not a licensing expert.
Paolo
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