Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:25:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> To: Daniel de Rauglaudre <daniel.de_rauglaudre@inria.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: May I be inspired by your license for my product? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905101320070.7034-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <3736A9CF.48FE8B2@inria.fr>
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On Mon, 10 May 1999, Daniel de Rauglaudre wrote: > Sorry if people often ask you this question, but I would like to change > the license for my product (Camlp4, a preprocessor for the language > Ocaml, free of charge distributed with the sources), and I would know if > I am allowed to be inspired by the "FreeBSD Copyright" I found at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html > > changing BSD into INRIA (my company)? As far as I know you are free to use this license after applying the necessary modification. I'd be very surprised if you were not allowed to use it. > I had decided to use the GPL, but people are telling me it is too > restrictive, e.g. forbidding people to add it in commercial packages, > what I don't want to forbid, even if Camlp4 is free. You may take a look at http://www.daemonnews.org. The issues from April and May have some articles about this subject. Regards // // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _______ // Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ // Datenverarbeitung mbH GÖttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / // Am Faßberg, D-37077 GÖttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----- // http://www.freebsd.org // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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