Steve M. Robbins wrote:
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 04:51:52PM +0200, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
So we know that the relicensing happend prior to its use by nyquist.
(I don't know the specific date, however, which is why I said "not
sure", above).
Does that help?
I had a closer look at http://xlisp.org, but sadly that doesn't mention
a VCS. There's only one version available for download, which I'm
guessing is the latest. The license.txt file in the tar file has a
timestamp of 2002-09-06. The website says "... including a new license
(updated 9/13/02)", without mention about what actually changed about
it. So my unconfirmed guess is that XLISP was not libre before
2002-09-13, but has been libre since then for everyone (not just the
Nyquist project).
It would also be good to make this information available to other
distributions who might be distributing affected versions.
Yes, I encourage you to do so.
By "this information" I meant to include enough information for other
software projects to know if they ship an affected version of Nyquist or
XLISP. You're certain that there was never a problem for Nyquist. Seeing
as you contacted upstream before, could you be so kind as to get a
confirmation/clarification about my analysis above for XLISP? Thanks.
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