Fri 2003-01-17 13:15, Bob Jones (1:343/41) wrote to Andrew Clarke:

 >> So, have you looked into switching the licensing over to GPL after
 >> verifing and updating for any changes in the Squish MsgAPI that
 >> comes with the Max 3.02 source code?

 ac>> It contains a lot of code not written by me that was 
 ac>> released to the public domain.  The licencing could not 
 ac>> change without permission from all of those people.

 > Maybe I'm missing your point, and maybe I need to dig deaper....

 > But from memory:  (1)  The Husky project is ending up in the
"non-free" 
 > arena for Debian due to licensing because they use SMAPI.

This is news to me, but doesn't bother me terribly much, epecially since I
don't use Debian.  As far as I'm concerned the MSGAPI code has always been
"open source" (since 1991).  SMAPI may be freely modified, and
does not cost anything to use, so I'm not sure what the issue is there.

 > (2)  I admit I need to dig out and look at what the current license
 > is, but I suspect the non-public domain portions of the code can be
 > modified over to GPL, since as I understand it, the code is either
 > Scott's original code or changes that were made in the public domain.
 > Therefor, if you switch over to the Max 3.02 source release set of
 > code and make the same public domain mods to that code,

Unfortunately you are underestimating the number of mods there have been to
XMSGAPI since SQDEV200.  It's not just a matter of a patch here or there. 
Virtually the entire code has changed or been rearranged in a way to make
it very difficult to do as you suggest.  If I had the time, I may do it,
but as I said in my previous message I'm more interested in getting the
code stable than making the Debian people happy.

 > your new code should be able to go in Debian's regular tree, and
 > thereby get included on the standard Debian CD images.....  Would
 > that not be a good goal to strive for? What am I missing in this
 > line of thought?

I don't really care whether it appears on CD images or not personally. 
Anyone wanting to use it can download the source code from my web server,
which will always have the latest version, unlike a CD.

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