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Re: randlib licence
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John W. Eaton |
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Re: randlib licence |
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Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:20:51 -0400 |
On 12-Jun-2007, David Bateman wrote:
| which makes the whole question moot. If the authors, as owners of the
| copyright on the code, place the code in the public domain, I don't see
| how an ACM restriction can apply. The only question I see is in the
| statement "that we have written". If there is any code in randlib that
| was not written by the authors, then it would default to the ACM license
| as the only one under which you can distribute.. I don't believe this is
| the case, so I think randlib is in the clear for incorporation in GPLed
| software..
I assumed that it is OK, but if there is a problem I suppose we could
remove it now as I think the default random number generator is no
longer the randlib one.
jwe