Re: [ESPResSo-devel] Tcl interpreter changed? - Legal Issues

[Olaf Lenz]

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Hi!

Torsten Stuehn wrote:
> In my opinion the legal issues of the tclline.tcl script are pretty
> clear (see http://wiki.tcl.tk/4381) as long as we do not claim, that
> it is our own script, we are allowed to use it.

Well, one the one hand it is stated that the creator of the site thinks
the code is free, but on the other hand also "You own your own words.".
There is no explicit statement that whenever you change something, you
give up copyright. So I think in theory someone could sue people for
using material from the site without permission.
I think this is a minor issue, so this should not stop us using the code.

> I like the new interactive commandline of ESPResSo pretty much and think
> that we should keep the script.

I like the features, but not the implementation, which is too much
focussed on Linux and not very portable. I will see whether it's easily
possible to use the libreadline-code.

Olaf

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