* BMF (badmotherfs...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Alan Buxey <a.l.m.bu...@lboro.ac.uk> wrote: > > > ouch. a couple of years ago we had some home-brew code doing the job. > > Nipper > > came along...was free..and did everything we did + a little more. > > > > but now it looks like we'll be picking up our old Perl code and fixing it > > up > > to do everything that Nipper does - and a little more. > > > > Was Nipper not available as source and licensed so it could be forked in an > event such as this? If not, consider it an object lesson in free as in beer > vs free as in speech.
LICENSE file for nipper-cli 0.12.0 and libnipper 0.12.6 states: THIS IS IMPORTANT: libNipper and all other Nipper products are licensed under the GPL version 3 with the following exceptions. 1. The code cannot be used as part of a commercial product. A commercial license can be arranged for the integration of Nipper with a commercial product. Contact f...@titania.co.uk for commercial licensing information. 2. Any code that integrates Nipper MUST display the following copyright information with the programs own copyright information: Nipper Copyright (C) 2006 - 2008 by Ian Ventura-Whiting In order to maintain the latest copyright information for each libNipper release, this information can be extracted using the API. Nipper is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License v3 (below) for more details. Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/