On Fri, 25 May 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:50:26AM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 May 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:16:13PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > > > I'll let you know when the code is Microsoft-free, and later on when I
> > > > have the man-pages ready.
> > > >
> > > > Now, a request from Markus Oberhumer: can you excempt the contents of
> > > > make_pysol_freecell_board.py from the GPL, so we will not have something
> > > > GPLed in the middle of a public domain package?
> > >
> > > I am reluctant to violate the GPL even in a minor manner.
> >
> > I'm not going to violate the GPL. I was asking Markus, who is the
> > author and copyright holder of this code, to excempt it from the GPL for
> > us, so we can distribute it under the public domain. There's nothing
> > illegal about it. Some companies distribute software under the GPL and if
> > you pay them some money for it, they give it to you under a properiatary
> > license (e.g: Qt or FFTW).
>
> make_pysol_freecell_board.py includes code derived/taken from GPL'd software;
> one cannot arbitrarily select a copyright for previously GPL'd code, this
> infringes the GPL. Only the PySol authors can decide which copyright they wish
> to assign to their software. Unless the PySol code is removed, I don't see
> a legal way to relicense make_pysol_freecell_board.py.
>
Perhaps you don't know that Markus Oberhumer _is_ the author of PySol, so
he can decide to excempt part of its code from the GPL.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
>
> Regards, Yotam Rubin
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