OpenEuphoria

Re: ESL license

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Jul 24, 2005
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D. Newhall wrote:

> Juergen Luethje wrote:

<snip>

>> What about using other code, which is "Public Domain", or say which is
>> contained in EUforum posts?
>> ( E.g. Ricardo and Derek had posted some neat code on this list, which
>> I would like to see in ESL.  )
>
> Technically, unless they say that their code is public domain we need
> to get permission from them to use it since the Berne Convention states
> that everything created by a person in coutries that agreed to the
> Convention is automatically copyrighted by them. Luckily, Ricardo has
> put genfunc.e in the public domain.

And there is also a chance to get permission from Derek (P.). 

Thanks for your interesting explanations (also in the other post) about
license questions.

> Also, I think that we should put the Library itself into the public
> domain with a statement that reiterates that there's no warranty and a
> request that you give credit to the project and/or its contributors if
> you use code from it in your project.

The more I think about it, the more I think it actually should be Public
Domain.

Regards,
   Juergen