[pkg-boinc-devel] RE: [boinc_dev] files are still licensed under BOINC Public License

Rom Walton rwalton at ssl.berkeley.edu
Sat Dec 24 20:09:08 UTC 2005


I've checked in the required changes...

Changes for Unicode support are pending...

----- Rom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boinc_dev-bounces at ssl.berkeley.edu [mailto:boinc_dev-
> bounces at ssl.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Frank S. Thomas
> Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 2:43 AM
> To: boinc_dev at ssl.berkeley.edu
> Cc: pkg-boinc-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Subject: [boinc_dev] files are still licensed under BOINC Public License
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The files "boinc/m4/sah_header_stdcxx.m4" and "boinc/m4/sah_namespace.m4"
> are
> still licensed under the terms of the BOINC Public License. Shouldn't
> they,
> like the rest of BOINC (or SETI), be licensed under the terms of the LGPL
> (or
> GPL)?
> 
> This is an important issue for the inclusion of BOINC into Debian, so I
> would
> really appreciate if you could relicense these files under a free software
> license.
> 
> Thanks and merry Christmas to you all!
>  - Frank
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