Re: Black Duck IP Assessment of FreeRDP

> For Cendio copyright, you are currently in position of accepting the license change for "whatever
> could have been left in our code base". We wouldn't ask you to change the license on rdesktop, since
> we believe none of your copyright is left in our code base. You'd basically be granting us rights on
> the parts of code which are unproven to exist as of yet, to relieve us from the uncertainty that
> you're talking about. I respect your position regarding the GPL, but in this case willingly wanting to
> leave uncertainty on us is not necessarily considered a "friendly" approach. We're doing our best to
> respect your copyright and your choice of not accepting the license change, I would expect a minimum
> effort and good will from your side in return. We believe none of your IP is left in our code base,
> this is only an extra measure to remove this uncertainty. Are you willing to make that move for the
> good of both projects?

We believe that FreeRDP is based on our copyrighted code and that the 
value of our work is significant. We are not prepared to give away this 
work under a non-copyleft license at this time. We are sorry if this 
causes problems for you. I also want to point out that this is not my 
decision alone.


Regards, 
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Peter Åstrand		ThinLinc Chief Developer
Cendio AB		http://www.cendio.com
Wallenbergs gata 4
583 30 Linköping	Phone: +46-13-21 46 00

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