Re: [ng-spice] Licensing issues


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From Arno <A.W.Peters@ieee.org>
Date Fri, 3 Sep 1999 01:33:34 +0200
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May I suggest a third alternative?

We could contact the copyright holders, in this case the Berkeley CAD
Development Group, and ask them to rerelease the code under the GPL
license.

Arguments in favour of this move have already been nicely summarized
in the FAQ.

Arguments to counter this move would be: it deprives Berkeley
University of licensing fees levied on the commercial application of
spice.

Hey, if you ask kindly, who knows what you might get?

-- 
Arno

(Yes, I'm going to bed now)

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