New restrictions in libraries?
Hi all,
Juergen Luethje has posted another edition of his long filenames support
library. The only change is a new license that contains these provisions:
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Without express written permission from the author, you are *not*
allowed to include any of the files *physically* in another file.
You also must not modify any of the files. This means, among other things,
that you are not allowed to rename the files, or split them into pieces.
3. Distribution
You may distribute the files "Lfn.e" and/or "file_ln.e" with your
programs, as long as this file ("Lfn_lice.txt") is distributed unchanged
in the same package.
<End quoted material>
This is probably an unfortunate reaction to a file submitted by me. Not only do
I regret the ill-feeling I accidently caused, I doubly regret seeing anyone make
such restrictions in an Eu library.
Due to Juergens's original reaction, and to a two messages from Kat, I had
already re-written Mash.ex to leave in all comments in all the code. I have
already created a new mashed Eu program (a file formatter) with all author
information left intact that I have not uploaded yet. In short, there would have
been no problem again. I had responded to legitimate concerns that credit would
be listed regarding their code, as I have always believed it should.
Really, there are few problems that simple communication cannot solve, and I
wish it had happened here.
--Quark
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