[Fedora-legal-list] license for Life Lexicon included in golly

[Tom Callaway]

On 02/07/2011 02:03 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> I have been unable to contact Mr. Silver. However, I posted to the 
> golly-test mailing list, and got the reply below from Tom Rokicki, one 
> of the golly authors.  Is this satisfactory?  I suspect that it is not, 
> but I'd like to have a semi-official opinion on it before I ask Tom to 
> pester Mr. Silver about a license change.

It is not satisfactory, it merely confirms the existing terms. It is
worth noting that I also attempted to contact Mr. Silver via email in
December and have yet to receive a response.

> Assuming that the email below isn't sufficient, and assuming that Mr. 
> Silver is willing to change the license, would a chnage from "It may be 
> freely copied and/or modified..." to "It may be freely copied, 
> distributed, and/or modified..." result in the license being 
> acceptable?  I'd prefer not to go through this process more than once.

Yes, that would do the trick.

~tom

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