On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Martin Albrecht
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Friday 14 November 2008, William Stein wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:05 AM, Martin Albrecht
>>
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > On Friday 14 November 2008, David Møller Hansen wrote:
>> >> I would really like to start such a project.
>> >
>> > Great!
>> >
>> >> But I wouldn't know the first thing on how to do so..
>> >
>> > I suppose the first thing to do, is to look through the list of
>> > requirements and check the PBC library if it qualifies. It can still be
>> > an optional package if it doesn't qualify for inclusion in the standard
>> > library.
>>
>> Just for the record, Michael Abshoff claimed that PBC does *not*
>> qualify due to them
>> switching to GPL-v3 only.   So It would have to be an optional package.
>
> He is right, I just checked. COPYING is GPLv3 and there are no copyright
> statements in the source files, so COPYING definitely applies. I suppose it
> is worth a shot to try to convince the authors to consider relicensing?

Yes, definitely.  Alternatively, we can fork their last GPLv2 version.
(Just kidding! -- I've never even looked at the project.)

William

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