Re: License Problems

From: Tomasz Motylewski (motyl@stan.chemie.unibas.ch)
Date: Fri Aug 14 1998 - 04:34:04 MEST


On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Jens Ritter wrote:

> and
> 
>     This source is based on Xclass95, a Win95-looking GUI toolkit.
>     Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 David Barth, Ricky Ralston, Hector Peraza.
> 
> the latter place it under GPL, which then makes derived work GPL.  So

No, it is LGPL. Distribution terms for this case are in p. 7 of LGPL.

But I agree that copyright status of ROOT should be clarified.

The problem is that due to discussions about release of Netscape sources
people are much more aware about consequences of GPL and other licenses. 

Regards,
--
Tomasz Motylewski 



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