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echo: fidosoft.husky
to: andrew clarke
from: Tobias Ernst
date: 2003-02-10 19:03:10
subject: smapi/xmsgapi licence

Hi!

 ac>> fairly trivial.  The bulk of the changes are due to replacing 
 ac>> the SCI licence and with the GPL licence in each file.  So it 

I wasn't, but Scott has already pointed that out to me :-).

 ac> Of course then anyone statically-linking the SMAPI/XMSGAPI would 
 ac> need to provide source code to their program if their executable 
 ac> was publically available, because the GPL considers this a 
 ac> "combined work".  But given that (I assume) everything that uses 
 ac> SMAPI/XMSGAPI is already either GPL or GPL-compatible (eg. BSD 
 ac> or PD), this probably isn't something to be too concerned about.

PD is not at all compatbile. I will be in violation of GPL if I distributed
Msged under a PD-type license when it is linked to a GPL'ed version of
SMAPI.

I'm currently in discussion with Scott and try to convince him to send me
an allowance to use LGPL.

Regards,
Tobias.

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