Re: [ANN] high-precision mathematical library
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- Subject: Re: [ANN] high-precision mathematical library
- From: KHMan <keinhong@...>
- Date: 2009年4月14日 18:03:56 +0800
Martin Schröder wrote:
2009年4月14日, KHMan <...>:
Miles Bader wrote:
KHMan <...> writes:
[snip snip]
It is in context of how the "commercialization intent" is handled. Let us
disregard for a moment that I agree open licenses is the most beneficial to
all in the case of such libraries.
This is not what the tarball says. The distribution is the tarball -
I think we can (legally) disregard any statemnts elsewhere.
[snip snip]
:-) :-) If you think the above, well... I prefer to err on the
side of caution. In a nutshell, my argument is that I cannot
simply dismiss a clear assertion of policy on an up-to-date web
page of the library package in question. Therefore, I cannot make
definitive conclusions about its licensing using only the COPYING
file alone (which you point out is not explicitly tied to the
sources using the usual copyright declaration comment blocks.)
Or, put it like this: I think we cannot download the package
without going to that page. That page has clear licensing policy
assertions. Is it like click-wrap licensing? That would be for a
judge to decide. Does the unmarked sources mean that we cannot
disregard licensing policy other than what is stated in the
COPYING file? Did the authors assert that the text of COPYING
represents the licensing policy of the source code? Well, nothing
is clear, except that to solve this, we'd have to clarify the
whole thing with the authors.
I partly agree with the scenario Miles mentioned. Remember, it
could be that the license was changed from some-restrictions to
BSD, and the website was not updated. But it could also be that
the license was changed from BSD to some-restrictions and the
authors did not update the package to reflect new organization
policy, thus leaving the ambiguity hanging out there.
Of course, all of this could be solved by a simple query. But
given the information presented thus far, the status of the
library is far from clear. I've said too much already, so I'll
leave this thread to others.
--
Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia