[lift-devel] License

[Stephen Wilson]

Greetings!

Reading COPYING I noticed that Lift has "portions copyright" under the
University of Massachusetts.  The license states that the software cannot be
used commercially.

Thus, Lift is not "open source" in the sense of OSI (www.opensource.org), let
alone Free Software as per the FSF.

Is there any chance that Lift could be re-licensed under the terms of the
modified BSD or MIT as the other clauses in COPYING indicate?

I do not want to use Lift in a commercial setting -- I would simply like to use
Lift for a project, and I would like to depend only on Free Software/Open Source
code.


Thanks for your time!
Steve