Re: [cc65] Those damn license(s)...

From: Ullrich von Bassewitz <uz1musoftware.de>
Date: 2004-07-29 09:35:34
Hi!

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:31:39PM +0200, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> The project_ has it's first user comment on Freshmeat.  And it's about
> the license.  :-)

I'm eagerly awaiting the moment, when the number of people discussing the cc65
license exceeds the number of programmers using it:-)

> I've chosen `Other/Proprietary License with Source` from the list_ as I
> thought that fits best.  Uz, do you have any comments to say about
> that?

The license is definitely not BSD/X11 as suggested by the comment, since for a
small part of the code the old JRD license is still in place, which is much
stricter. The new license would be "zlib/libpng License", but it doesn't cover
all of the code.

My suggestion would be to leave it as it is. I'm in the process of rewriting
both critical modules that contain the remaining JRD code (the other two being
header files, that do not contain actual code), so there's a chance that the
old license will be history with the next major release. My work on the
compiler stalled the last two weeks because I got my K2
(http://www.elecraft.com/k2_page.htm) and spent most free time building it,
but I hope to get back on track soon.

Regards


        Uz


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Ullrich von Bassewitz                                  uz@musoftware.de
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