Re: [Chicken-users] TK eggs and unclear licensing status

[Peter Bex]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:05:56AM +0100, felix winkelmann wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> >  While converting some more documentation to the wiki, I noticed something
> >  weird:
> >
> >  * There's both a tk and a PS-tk egg.  Neither of these is marked 
> > deprecated.
> >  * PS-tk seems to be a derivative of tk
> >  * PS-tk has a BSD license, tk has some "Bremer License" I never heard of
> >
> >  Are these really so different that neither can be marked deprecated?  And
> >  what's up with the license?  My German is not very good and I certainly
> >  can't translate 7 pages of German legalese, but I doubt that this is
> >  compatible with the simple 3-clause BSD license, so can PS-tk just change
> >  the license like that?
> >
> >  To make matters worse, the original "scheme_wish" code upon which both
> >  say they're based is for "noncommercial use only"
> >  (according to a small note at http://pi7.fernuni-hagen.de/hartrumpf/)
> >
> >  Can someone please clear this up?
> >
> 
> Sven Hartrumpf is the one to ask about scheme_wish, but I believe that
> all three authors (Sven, Wolf-Dieter Busch and Nils Holm) were in
> contact at one time or another, and, being german, are likely to have
> taken all steps to ensure everything has been settled and licenced
> correctly and legally waterproof.

Ah, thanks for your response.  I'll take it up with them and report back.

How about the deprecation?  Should the 'tk' egg be deprecated considering
PS-tk is a continuation of that work?

Cheers,
Peter
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