Re: FastCGI licensing contact

On 31/08/06, Marc D Prewitt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Originally, Open Market was the license owner but I'm not sure where that
> has gone too.
>
> However, looking at the Open Market license, you should be ok doing what
> you want.  Here's the original license:
>
> http://www.fastcgi.com/om_archive/kit/LICENSE.TERMS
>
> You might try fatwire.com.  They aquired part of Open Market's assets (see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMarket for more history)




Ok, I will get the legal folks from my company to take a look at "
LICENSE.TERMS ". I am not very good at legal speak/read :)

Thanks for the OpenMarket links. Will followup on them.

regards
srp



Here's the part of the license that looks to me like you are in the clear:
>
> Open Market permits you to use, copy, modify, distribute, and license
> this Software and the Documentation for any purpose, provided that
> existing copyright notices are retained in all copies and that this
> notice is included verbatim in any distributions.  No written
> agreement, license, or royalty fee is required for any of the
> authorized uses.  Modifications to this Software and Documentation may
> be copyrighted by their authors and need not follow the licensing
> terms described here.  If modifications to this Software and
> Documentation have new licensing terms, the new terms must be clearly
> indicated on the first page of each file where they apply.
>
>
>
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Saju Pillai wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > We would like to ship FastCGI devkit client/server as part of a
> commercial
> > product with some modifications. These modifications will break
> > compatibility between opensource fastcgi implementations and our version
> > (which is fine with us). The regular fcgi clients/servers will not be
> able
> > to talk to the modified servers/clients - and we think such a change
> > requires endorsement from the fcgi license owner(s). We have been
> > unsuccessful in our attempts to contact the fcgi license owners. Can
> someone
> > on the list help us locate them please.
> >
> > regards
> > srp
> >
>

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