hello, on 2009-11-09 i contacted kilgard to ask him to license his code under BSD 3clause license. no answer yet, and i doubt that there'll be one.
kilgards answer not giving any specific free license, gns should stop distributing his files. ben ben wrote: > Hello, > > attached you'll find Mark Kilgard's answer to my request of him freeing > his code. > > Greetings > ben > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > RE: texfont.C and texfont.h license > From: > Mark Kilgard <m...@nvidia.com> > Date: > Mon, 9 Nov 2009 10:35:20 -0800 > To: > ben <benedikt.ahr...@gmx.net> > > To: > ben <benedikt.ahr...@gmx.net> > > > Ben, > > Do whatever you want with the code but do NOT put the restrictive GPL license > on it. > > - Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: ben [mailto:benedikt.ahr...@gmx.net] > Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 10:22 AM > To: Mark Kilgard > Subject: texfont.C and texfont.h license > > * PGP Signed by an unknown key > > Dear M. Kilgard, > > the package boinc, which is contained in the gNewSense (gNS) [1] > GNU/Linux distribution, includes two files > texfont.C > and > texfont.h > written and copyrighted by you (see [2] for bug report). > > The license you distribute your software under is nonfree in the > definition of the Free Software Foundation. This means that your files > would have to be removed from gNS, since gNS aims to be a free distribution. > > Before removal I would like to kindly ask you if it'd be possible to you > to distribute the files under a license which allows modification and > distribution of modified versions of your files. This would enable the > gNS developers to keep distributing the package. > > Kind regards > Benedikt Ahrens > > [1] http://www.gnewsense.org > [2] http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00362 > > * Unknown Key > * 0xFF852C12(L) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may > contain > confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or > distribution > is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the > sender by > reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > gNewSense-users@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users