On Mon, 11 May 2015 09:26:36 +0000 Mike Gabriel wrote:
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As it seems, dxpc has been long ago relicensed to BSD-2-clause (for
v3.8.1 in/around 2002).
This is great news, indeed!
I have no exact clue, if NoMachine forked prior to that (if they quote
the old licensing terms, then probably they did).
Yep, it's plausible...
However, how do you see the situation considering that upstream
changed to BSD-2-clause a long time ago. What approach do you propose
for nx-libs-lite to get the issue fully fixed?
If the fork has been performed before the DXPC re-licensing (as it's likely), I see two possible strategies:
(A) someone gets in touch with DXPC copyright owners and asks them whether the re-licensing may be considered retroactive (applicable to older versions of DXPC); in case the answer is negative, DXPC copyright owners should be persuaded to make the re-licensing retroactive
(B) nx-libs-lite upstream developers re-fork from scratch, basing the new code on a BSD-licensed version of DXPC (I suspect this may turn out to be somewhat painful...)
Obviously, the optimal solution is (A). I hope it may work...
Thanks for your time and for your prompt and kind replies.
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