hi all, Fortunately, I found the same file in newest release of scsh has changed licensing statement to GPL. I will port that file here.
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Chaos Eternal <chaoseter...@shlug.org> wrote: > hi Mark > I found this file is originally from savannah CVS repository: > http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/guile/guile-scsh/fname.scm?root=guile&view=markup > And the license was like that. > Also, there multiple files in the repo written by the same person, > Olin Shivers, has clearly declared GPL. > > I will ask Olin whether he is ok to change license. > > > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> wrote: >> Chaos Eternal <chaoseter...@shlug.org> writes: >> >>> I here by announce the 0.2 version of guile-scsh, which is ported to >>> guile-2.x and now >>> available. >>> >>> you can get it from: >>> https://gitorious.org/guile-scsh/guile-scsh >> >> This is great news! >> >> However, looking through the sources, it appears that one of the files >> (scsh/fname.scm) is non-free software. It contains the following >> header: >> >> ;;; Code for processing Unix file names. >> ;;; Copyright (c) 1992 by Olin Shivers (shiv...@lcs.mit.edu). >> ;;; Please imagine a long, tedious, legalistic 5-page gnu-style copyright >> ;;; notice appearing here to the effect that you may use this code any >> ;;; way you like, as long as you don't charge money for it, remove this >> ;;; notice, or hold me liable for its results. >> >> If we can't convince Olin Shivers to relicense it, we'll have to rewrite >> that file from scratch. >> >> Mark