Re: License Problems

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Fri Aug 14 1998 - 14:58:38 MEST


Hi Jens,

   Rene and I would like very much for ROOT to be under an "open source"
(http://www.opensource.org/) compatible license and we are preparing the
ground for that. When things are sorted out we'll announce this on roottalk.

Cheers, Fons.



Jens Ritter wrote:
> 
> Tomasz Motylewski <motyl@stan.chemie.unibas.ch> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Sorry, I didnīt read properly.
> 
> My fault.
> 
> Jens
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