Re: Differences in the license files

Carlo,

sourceLicense is the correct license, as you note.

On Sep 24, 2006, at 12:40 AM, Carlo Dapor wrote:

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> There is still a small differences between
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>    sourceLicense.html
>    documentation/sourceLicense.html
>    vm-license.txt
>    vm/vm-license.txt
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> Observations:
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> The first one I consider to be the correct, as it better conforms  
> the BSD license); it also states that the copy right is being held  
> since 1994 all the way through 2006.
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> doc/sourceLicense.html is the previous version; it should be  
> replaced with the content of the one in the root directory.
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> the two vm-license.txt refer to "redistributions" consistently,  
> whereas the corrected sourceLicense.html  uses "redistribution" on  
> its last occurence. Not a biggie.  There is also another  
> insignificant(?) wording difference in the same sentence, "list of  
> conditions" vs. "the list of conditions".  Neither difference  
> changes the meaning, most importantly they do not contract each  
> other.  And for a last wording difference, the expression  
> "Neither ... nor ..." (in vm-license.txt) is more accurate that  
> "Neither ... or '..".
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> In vm-license.txt the copyright is only held for 2006.
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> Call for a reconciliation ?
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: davegriswold9 <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 9:21:14 PM
> Subject: [strongtalk] *corrected source release*
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have posted the new source release from Sun on the downloads page at
> http://www.strongta lk.org/downloads /strongtalk- source-1. 0.1.zip
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> This is the same as the original release, except that the obsolete
> previous license file has been removed. It is now clear that the  
> entire
> thing is under a pure BSD-style license. Much better! This is the
> release everything should be based on now; the old source download has
> been removed.
>
> -Dave
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