Okay, the reference to the bison skeleton is probably just copyright file junk, in that case. But I still worry about this part:
> Permission is hereby granted to copy, reproduce, redistribute or otherwise > use this software as long as: there is no monetary profit gained > specifically from the use or reproduction of this software, it is not > sold, rented, traded or otherwise marketed, and this copyright notice is > included prominently in any copy made. [...] > [ I contacted Stan Barber, Wayne Davison and Larry Wall to ask for > clarification of this. Stan Barber replied: > This intent of the copyright is not to INCREASE the cost of a > CD-ROM distribution just because *rn was added. Put another way, if > you had a CD-ROM at $100 and added *rn and changed the cost to $110 > just because you added *rn, that would violate the intent of the > copyright. > and Wayne Davison agreed. -- Ian Jackson, former trn maintainer ] -- The "clarification" seems to contradict the sentence it clarifies; "it is not sold, rented, traded or otherwise marketed" pretty clearly forbids what is described here. -- Apparently, Larry Wall never replied to Ian's query. Oh, and no license is given for this: > Regular expression parsing in search.c Copyright 1981, 1980 James > Gosling. Modified by Tom London (1981); ripped to shreds and glued > back together to make a search package by Larry Wall (1984). Richard Braakman
