On 2007/12/17 00:13, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > I shall wait for an answer from Ryan Kulla for lazyread licensing terms. > I really wonder what to do when the license is unclear. Licensing bugs > me a lot like it bugs everyone. ;)
It totally varies from case to case, author to author. If I contact someone about getting useful license terms, I try to make it clear that _any_ license thats lets us redistribute and make the changes we need to fit the software into ports would be just fine - standard licenses preferred over homebrew, but I stay away from suggesting anything in particular. For individual free software developers, this usually works quite well (this method tries to avoid getting into flamewars with people fanatic about a particular license). For companies... well, you're often lucky if you get a response. If you don't get any useful response, and the software is generally quite useful, PERMIT_*=No. But in that case, also look for suitable alternatives with better licenses that might be more useful.
