academic software without licence

2003-02-03 Thread Antoine Mathys
Hello, What exactly must be done when trying to package an academic piece of software, which typically has no copyright but mentions such as : - The program is provided as is. There is no warranty. - may be used without restriction - available to everyone, with no restrictions (and

Re: academic software without licence

2003-02-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 03 February 2003 11:35, Antoine Mathys wrote: Hello, What exactly must be done when trying to package an academic piece of software, which typically has no copyright but mentions such as : - The program is provided as is. There is no warranty. - may be used without

Re: academic software without licence

2003-02-03 Thread Antoine Mathys
may be used without restriction does not give you the right to distribute or modify. Use clauses only govern actual use. I guess the bottom line is this software is probably not to be treated as free software unless/until the author says it is. Rather annoying I know. Ok. Asking for

Re: academic software without licence

2003-02-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 03 February 2003 20:13, you wrote: On Monday 03 February 2003 07:46 pm, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Monday 03 February 2003 11:35, Antoine Mathys wrote: - The program is provided as is. There is no warranty. - may be used without restriction - available to

Re: academic software without licence

2003-02-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 03 February 2003 20:06, Antoine Mathys wrote: may be used without restriction does not give you the right to distribute or modify. Use clauses only govern actual use. I guess the bottom line is this software is probably not to be treated as free software unless/until the author

Re: academic software without licence

2003-02-03 Thread Terry Hancock
On Monday 03 February 2003 08:31 pm, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Monday 03 February 2003 20:13, Terry Hancock wrote: But available to everyone, with no restrictions does give you distribute and modify, since non-modification is clearly a restriction. available gives you the right to have