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Licensing of library code in Data Transfer library #473

Open PhilMiller opened 10 years ago

PhilMiller commented 10 years ago

Original issue: https://charm.cs.illinois.edu/redmine/issues/473

libs/ck-libs/datatransfer - Poorly written license that doesn't grant what it meant to from defunct Magic Software Company (see parent issue)

ericjbohm commented 5 years ago

Original date: 2017-04-04 18:25:52

www.magic-software.com is no longer a valid URL. Wayback machine doesn't have a copy due to robots.txt.

Magic Software Inc. that I can find online is branding itself as an eLearning company. Magic Software Enterprises has a variety of products.

Seems unlikely that any of those has any claim on the IP as they appear to be independent contenders for a very common name choice.

Most likely match seems to be:

http://www.orbitalatk.com/magic Current product seems to be a higher level of abstraction over newer versions of this functionality.

However, searches on their site aren't matching the old licensing filename (free.pdf), so the situation is unclear.

Other matching searches for mgc stuff hits on other public archives of the same source code.