Hello, To summarise this thread we have the following statments from the major contributors, which ought to have been enough.
On Fri, 03 Aug 2007, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote: > As far as I'm concerned, hte license can be changed to fully GPL and > the non-commercial statement can be removed. On Fri, 03 Aug 2007, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote: > But, dvi2tty is in fact my creation. > It is derived from the dvitty program written in Pascal by Svante. > E.g. I am the author of the C version. > So I think I'm entitled to release the code as GPL without further > permission from Svante, but I'm not sure... On Tue, 07 Aug 2007, Svante Lindahl wrote: > As Marcel says, I wrote the original dvitty in Pascal (initially on > TOPS-20, and then later ported to 4.3BSD Unix, and Pyramid OSx). > I have no issues if the dvi2tty is GPL:ed at this time. The manner in which Marcel J. E. Mol has kept historical data for the program needs to be commended, but it is (IMHO) not enough for DFSG-free-ness in 2007. The problem is that the code was developed from 1988 to 2003 by Marcel J. E. Mol under the original non-DFSG license. During this period a number of patches were provided --- a priori under the same (non-DFSG) license. The contributors are listed at the top of dvi2tty.c. Some of these patches may be irrelevant under gcc+glibc but the remaining contributors need to be contacted and the issue sorted out. Regards, Kapil. --
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