From blindglobe at gmail.com  Sat Sep 19 07:48:55 2009
From: blindglobe at gmail.com (A.J. Rossini)
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:48:55 +0200
Subject: [lift-devel] License
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Gary -

Took a look at the LIFT license, and it hasn't changed.  The same
problem applies to CL-VARIATES, which I'd love to use but will have to
rewrite (poorly) under an OSS-compatible license --
any chance we could get the non-commercial component changed?

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Stephen Wilson <wilsons at start.ca> wrote:
> 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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>>
>> --
>> Gary Warren King, metabang.com
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-- 
best,
-tony

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