[lift-devel] License

[Gary King]

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for your interest. Does it matter one way or the other that the  
U-Mass copyright only runs until 2004? If not, then I will try to re- 
release with a more BSD license.

thanks,


On Oct 14, 2008, at 9:00 PM, Stephen Wilson wrote:

> 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
>
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