Hi, The comments below might not apply to the current package, but are addressed to some of the troubling aspects of the license.
,---- | 14. ADDITIONAL TERM: ATTRIBUTION | (a) As a modest attribution to the organizer of the development of | the Original Code ("Original Developer"), in the hope that its | promotional value may help justify the time, money and effort | invested in writing the Original Code, the Original Developer may | include in Exhibit B ("Attribution Information") a requirement | that each time an Executable and Source Code or a Larger Work is | launched or initially run (which includes initiating a session), | a prominent display of the Original Developer's Attribution | Information (as defined below) must occur on the graphic user | interface employed by the end user to access such Covered Code | (which may include display on a splash screen), if any. `---- ,---- | The size of the graphic image should be consistent with the size of the | other elements of the Attribution Information. If the access by the end | user to the Executable and Source Code does not create a graphic user | interface for access to the Covered Code, this obligation shall not | apply. If the Original Code displays such Attribution Information in a | particular form (such as in the form of a splash screen, notice at | login, an "about" display, or dedicated attribution area on user | interface screens), continued use of such form for that Attribution | Information is one way of meeting this requirement for notice. | (b) Attribution information may only include a copyright notice, a | brief phrase, graphic image and a URL ("Attribution Information") and | is subject to the Attribution Limits as defined below. [...snip!] `---- ,---- | 15. ADDITIONAL TERM: NETWORK USE. | The term "External Deployment" means the use, distribution, or | communication of the Original Code or Modifications in any way such | that the Original Code or Modifications may be used by anyone other | than You, whether those works are distributed or communicated to those | persons or made available as an application intended for use over a | network. As an express condition for the grants of license hereunder, | You must treat any External Deployment by You of the Original Code or | Modifications as a distribution under section 3.1 and make Source Code | available under Section 3.2. `---- This means, if I even use one single function of the original work, in an a GUI environment, which creates, say, a button to use in the task bar (small button, think of the wm* packages -- wmweather et al), I either make the button hugish, or I have to code in a splash screen -- for every single button that uses any of the original source. So, if a user has a dozen or so of these buttons in their toolbar, they are faced with a dozen splash screens when they start their session. This sounds like a significant reduction in freedom. manoj -- Be consistent. Larry Wall in the perl man page Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]