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license issue of Meka
Post Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 12:38 pm
I have a problem with the term "BSD-like license".
'In'(thanks autocorrection) my opinion the author of the gpl part gives you a limited right for dual license. But "As long as it's not used in a commercial product, of course" means it is not free software. Free Software makes no difference in usage of the software.
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Post Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 1:03 pm
Well yes it is a problem. The author of HQ2X clearly didn't understand nor care much about the meaning of GPL. So I guess if you want to make commercial usage you have to remove HQ2X but it's not even working in the 0.8x branch anyway.
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Post Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 1:05 pm
MEKA uses code from various authors, marat's Z80 emulator, the fdc765 emulator, etc. and those are not covered by my own BSD-like license terms. Strictly speaking it is rather unfortunate and confusing. Effectively speaking nobody seems to care.
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Post Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 3:31 pm
I have no interest to make it prop., my later goal is a port for pkgsrc. But you mixes free with nonfree components in your code. So technical is no valid license, right?
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