Re: License Problems

Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:58:38 +0200


Hi Jens,

Rene and I would like very much for ROOT to be under an "open source"
(http://www.opensource.org/) compatible license and we are preparing the
ground for that. When things are sorted out we'll announce this on rootta=
lk.

Cheers, Fons.

Jens Ritter wrote:
> =

> Tomasz Motylewski <motyl@stan.chemie.unibas.ch> writes:
> =

> > On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Jens Ritter wrote:
> >
> > > and
> > >
> > > This source is based on Xclass95, a Win95-looking GUI toolkit.
> > > Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 David Barth, Ricky Ralston, Hector Per=
aza.
> > >
> > > the latter place it under GPL, which then makes derived work GPL. =
So
> >
> > No, it is LGPL. Distribution terms for this case are in p. 7 of LGPL.=

> =

> Sorry, I didn=B4t read properly.
> =

> My fault.
> =

> Jens
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