On 13-08-2009, at 08:27, chris wrote: > Hi, > > I have written some gretl scripts which I would like to publish, but > it seems like some parts of it are covered, or might be covered, by > patents. But I think I could publish the code with some strings > attached, i.e. only use in academia, no allowance to give code to > somebody else. > Now my question is, if it is possible to publish gretl script code > under my own terms, or whether gretl scripts are a derived work of > gretl and must be GPL licensed when they are distributed? > For example perl can be GPL licensed, too, but under > http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ > the developers give the permission to distribute perl code under a > non-free license. > I didn't found any thread on this topic on the mailing-list, so if > this has already been discussed, I'm sorry? >
Could you let us see the parts you think are covered? Which specific patents are you worried about? Berend
