[M3devel] Licenses and copyright ownership

[Rodney M. Bates]

On 10/16/2013 02:11 PM, Tony Hosking wrote:
> I think GPL is inherently incompatible with the original DEC/SRC license.

So what do you propose instead?

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