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Sakura-IT / SonnetAmiga

Reimplementation of WarpOS supporting Sonnet Crescendo 7200 and other PowerPC PCI cards (mirror of CVS development repository).
MIT License
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Decide on a license #2

Open rkujawa opened 9 years ago

rkujawa commented 9 years ago

The source code of this project is provided here on GitHub, but it is not licensed. We have to decide under what license will the program be distributed.

There are two common options in the open source world:

We should carefully think about which license will be better, knowing the peculiarities of Amiga community.

DvdBoon commented 9 years ago

Contacted Sam Jordan. We can re-use some code. Still have to contact H&P though, who are the actual copyright holders. If it is denied then parts of ppcfunctions.p need to be rewritten before a license can be agreed upon.

rkujawa commented 7 years ago

Do we still have offending code in ppcfuncions.p?

DvdBoon commented 7 years ago

Yes. But on the other hand, some are already direct copies (but then in PPC assembly) from exec functions.

rkujawa commented 7 years ago

Can you pinpoint which of these functions really need rewriting?

rkujawa commented 7 years ago

Also, a temporary solution would be to just apply the license at the top of files that are "clean" from copyright point of view.

DvdBoon commented 7 years ago

That's everything except ppcfunctions.p

Some things have been the result of looking how copyrighted code behaved, like pci.i and pci_lib.i and the fd.

I'm guessing Sonnet_lib.fd is also partly based on the powerpc library one..

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rkujawa commented 7 years ago

Things that are a result of reverse engineering ("looking how copyrighted code behaved") do not pose any copyright problem.

In the current situation I suggest going with MIT License for the purpose of this project (essentially, an equivalent of 2-clause BSD license). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License

If you are OK with this, I will slap it on top of every source file, with the exception of ppcfunctions.p and wosdb stuff.

DvdBoon commented 7 years ago

ok

rkujawa commented 7 years ago

Slapped MIT license on top of source files (d3bac3a).