[lift-devel] License

[Stephen Wilson]

Gary,

Gary King <gwking at metabang.com> writes:
> Does it matter one way or the other that the U-Mass copyright only runs until
> 2004?

>From my understanding the license terms hold for the duration of the copyright,
which varies among jurisdictions (often 50 or 70 years after the copyright
holders death).  However, IANAL, so my understanding is worth very little.

> If not, then I will try to re-release with a more BSD license.

That would be terrific!  I think it would be generally useful to have Lift under
a 'standard' free software license.

Thanks for looking into this!

Steve

> 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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