Re: Copyright issues in Open Dylan

Bruce Mitchener <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.dylan.gwydion.devel
Message-ID <CA+esKjMZ8VXgz4sm4P7xeEuu7KoA9W-HGxnpmyGknHyTp+g5eQ@mail.gmail.com>
Just following up on this because opendylan.org went down after I sent this
email ...

 - Bruce



On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Bruce Mitchener
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Something that I've been meaning to mention for a while is the usage of
> some of the CMU sources within Open Dylan.
>
> An example would be:
>
>
> https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/blob/master/sources/io/format.dylan
>
> There are CMU copyrights in these files:
>
>
>    - sources/dfmc/reader/lexer-transitions.dylan
>    - sources/dfmc/reader/lexer.dylan
>    - sources/dfmc/reader/tokenizer.dylan
>    - sources/dylan/sort.dylan
>    - sources/io/format.dylan
>    - sources/io/pprint.dylan
>    - sources/io/print.dylan
>
>
> The copyright notice says:
>
>     Copyright (c) 1994  Carnegie Mellon University
>     All rights reserved.
>
>     Use and copying of this software and preparation of derivative
>     works based on this software are permitted, including commercial
>     use, provided that the following conditions are observed:
>
>     1. This copyright notice must be retained in full on any copies
>        and on appropriate parts of any derivative works.
>     2. Documentation (paper or online) accompanying any system that
>        incorporates this software, or any part of it, must acknowledge
>        the contribution of the Gwydion Project at Carnegie Mellon
>        University.
>
>     This software is made available "as is".  Neither the authors nor
>     Carnegie Mellon University make any warranty about the software,
>     its performance, or its conformity to any specification.
>
>     Bug reports, questions, comments, and suggestions should be sent by
>     E-mail to the Internet address "[email protected]".
>
> We should incorporate this notice into:
>
>
>    - Our LICENSE file.
>    - Our library-reference documentation.
>
>
> I don't think we need to include it in the copyright notice that we print
> at run-time from, say, dylan-compiler.
>
> I have a pull request that covers the above:
>
>     https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/pull/444
>
> Agree or disagree? Any other thoughts?
>
>  - Bruce
>
>

_______________________________________________
hackers mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.opendylan.org/mailman/listinfo/hackers
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.