[M3devel] Licenses and copyright ownership

[Tony Hosking]

I think GPL is inherently incompatible with the original DEC/SRC license.

Antony Hosking | Associate Professor | Computer Science | Purdue University
305 N. University Street | West Lafayette | IN 47907 | USA
Mobile +1 765 427 5484





On Oct 16, 2013, at 3:05 PM, "Rodney M. Bates" <rodney_bates at lcwb.coop> wrote:

> I have checked in a few written-from-scratch source files without copyright/license
> notices recently.  I plan to fix this, but wonder if there is a consensus about
> the choices here.  We already have a hodge-podge of copyright owners and licenses
> in the Modula-3 repository.  That may be difficult or impossible to fix, but I
> would like to move things in the right direction when adding all-new code.
> 
> I checked in some earlier ones naming myself as owner and GPL as license.
> But I recall reading some hints on this list suggesting that people felt
> that the GPL was not a good idea here.
> 
> Also, is there any organization that would be good to take ownership where
> possible, in order to get Modula-3 more consistent in this regard?
> 
>