[lift-devel] License

[A.J. Rossini]

For me, It doesn't matter, at least my understanding -- their
contributions still hold under that copyright, even if they didn't
contribute after that point.

BSD or GPL, either form would be preferable... (first easier, of course!).

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Gary King <gwking at metabang.com> wrote:
> 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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