[Freegis-list] predator ordbms

[John Reid]

I just diffed the licence files.  Looks like the file is the tail of the 
GPL, minus the intentions blurb, with a new header/copyright holder 
notice.  Bit hard to tell completely - MS Frontpage does some really 
bizarre things to the raw html.  Really need to look at the licence file 
included with the source distribution.

John Reid wrote:

> Hi,
>
> From a brief look, the Free Software Foundation and General Public 
> Licence are mentioned.  Definitely needs closer study. If I remember 
> correctly, v0.95 code was originally licenced under terms similar to 
> distributable for research purposes otherwise contact us.    This 
> might explain the password protection.  The licence seems close to 
> what I remember of the GPL blurb, if not the full licence text but 
> with a header section added. Don't know what else has been changed.  
> Must find plain text version for diffing ;-)
>
> Also the download instructions etc have old dates, but licence title 
> is literally "New Page".  Also, I'm sure that v2.0 pages only appeared 
> in the past month or two.  Looks like it might have been sitting in 
> the closet for a while.  I think there has been a change in the 
> primary development site as well.  Apparently work is currently in 
> progress on a port to linux.  I know it builds ok, however it the 
> project is still in it's infancy.  I have no idea what is like on 
> windows nt or 2000 (find that out sometime soon maybe), but definitely 
> needs work on linux. Having said that, so far looks like a promising 
> foundation :-)

Related projects are SHORE storage manager (BSD/Apache style - this is 
used by Predator and the now defunct Paradise project) and possibly 
lambda-db (lic?). 

>
> The new maintainer seems a friendly type :-)  I can put you in touch 
> with him if needed.
>
> cheers,
> John
>
> Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 09:22:00PM +1000, John Reid wrote:
>>
>>> This looks suspiciously like the GPL to me :-)
>>> http://www.cs.cornell.edu/predator/license.htm
>>>
>>
>> but it does not say so. Thus the license
>> must be checked word by word whether it actually is
>> identical to the GPL (to be sure).
>>
>> Furthmore, I fail to see why there is mandatory registration
>> with paswsword sending and all that stuff.
>> If there are reasons for this procedure,
>> they don't explain them.
>>
>> Jan
>>
>

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