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Licence clarification #191

Closed abdoulayediak closed 3 months ago

abdoulayediak commented 3 months ago

A teammate and I were wondering what licencing rules would apply if we were to ship along with another piece of software an installation of J (mostly the binaries like j.dll and other folders, like addons, etc.). The Licence.txt file coming with the binaries specifies some standard copyrights but is not helping much in that situation.

eiverson commented 3 months ago

Sounds like you just want to redistribute the standard J install (or parts of it) and don't need the complications of a source license. This is covered (briefly) in:

https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation#Overview "J systems are available for a number of platforms and can be installed and redistributed for free."

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Our legacy license might give more insight, but we have not revisited it in years. https://www.jsoftware.com/help/user/warranty.htm

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abdoulayediak commented 3 months ago

Great, thanks for clarifying.