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Re: randlib licence
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John W. Eaton |
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Re: randlib licence |
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Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:53:25 -0400 |
On 11-Jul-2007, David Bateman wrote:
| So yes there is a case that randlib is not GPL compatible. The current
| ACM license is dated June 1998, and all of these references are prior to
| that. I checked the ACM website and unfortunately they only have the
| articles themselves and not the legal material for the journals
| online.. So someone who had a paper copy of the ACM transactions from
| 1991 would have to check the licensing terms at that date... If there is
| nothing basic copyright applies and its not GPL compatible either..
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| Ok, I think I've convinced myself that randlib has to go... Damn..
Although it would be nice to keep it for backward compatibility, I
also think it is OK to remove it. It may cause trouble for some
people that the sequences are not exactly the same as before, but I
don't expect that it will be a serious problem for very many people.
jwe