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On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 10:19:14AM -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: |
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> In a recent bug for Monkey's Audio Codec[1], the license file[2] seems |
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> to me like it would cause some problems. Section 2 states "The use of |
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> any of the Monkey's Audio source code or any component thereof from |
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> another program requires express written permission from the author of |
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> Monkey's Audio." |
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> To me, this sounds like the user would need written permission to emerge |
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> the package... Am I reading that correctly? |
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I suspect the author's intention is to actually state that you cannot |
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use the source code in another work. (This is why lawyers, not |
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developers, should write licenses... 8) ) |
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Contacting upstream for clarification may be a good idea. |
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Jon Portnoy |
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