> 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.  (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, 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?

Take care....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41


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