Re: some question about the license

The SML/NJ license is the so-called X11/BSD license.  You basically can 
do what you
want with the code, including selling commercial products based on it 
w/o providing source.
There is no requirement that you provide the source of SML/NJ either.  
What you can't do is
use the names of Lucent Technologies or Bell Labs in your advertising 
w/o permission and
we provide no warranties.

	- John

On Jan 8, 2004, at 5:27 AM, Matthias Kretschmer wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Maybe this is a silly question, but I am unsure about the law in USA 
> and want to be sure.
>
> The license states that one has to distribute smlnj without fee. At 
> least that's clear to me. But now my question is what happens if I 
> want to distribute some application running smlnj. Basically one is 
> using it, so it has to be distributed freely. But what happens to my 
> source (or binary). I would think (and at least here in Germany it 
> would be this way) that I am allowed to have others pay for it, as 
> long as I give the smlnj package away for free. So I thought I just 
> ask the people here and hopefully getting an answer of someone 
> involved in smlnj.
>
> --
> Gruss
> Matthias Kretschmer
>
>
>
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