Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact general-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list general@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 25465 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2000 16:38:59 -0000 Received: from mail.sickkids.on.ca (HELO inside.sickkids.on.ca) (142.20.67.51) by 63.211.145.10 with SMTP; 27 Jan 2000 16:38:59 -0000 Received: [from kenny.bioinfo.sickkids.on.ca (kenny.bioinfo.sickkids.on.ca [142.20.155.38]) by inside.sickkids.on.ca (Sickkids) with ESMTP id LAA09786 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:38:11 -0500] Received: from kyle (kyle [142.20.95.61]) by kenny.bioinfo.sickkids.on.ca (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA13199 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:38:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:38:09 -0500 (EST) From: Guy Hulbert To: general@xml.apache.org Subject: Re: ICU In-Reply-To: <389059A8.AE7DEDC6@apache.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Pierpaolo Fumagalli wrote: PF> > - is there a FAQ ? PF> PF> About ICU or the IPSL? IPSL, but never mind ... I can look when I need to. PF> PF> > - is it compatible with GNU GPL ? PF> I meant "for example" ... PF> BRRRRR (an icecube is dropping between my shoulders) GPL? PF> PF> I really don't know... I am no license expert, but I believe so. GPL is PF> "recursive", and every derivative work of a GPL package needs to be PF> published (again) under GPL, and the IBM license gives you basically the PF> rights to do whatever you want with it, as long as you maintain the PF> copyright... ... looks close enough to BSD to me for now ... PF> PF> > - ... PF> > :) PF> PF> GPL :( PF> BSD :) But BSD is a "free licence" and GPL'd and BDS licensed code can be freely mixed (unlike NPL - i.e. Netscape - which is "free" but cannot be linked with GPL'd code). So, I don't care which one someone else chooses to use. However, since I learned TeX and Emacs (about 1985) I've found that it is worth my while to use tools based on free software. ---- Guy Hulbert, Project Manager Bioinformatics Supercomputing Centre (416) 813-8876 555 University Avenue email: guy@bioinfo.sickkids.on.ca The Hospital for Sick Children http: www.bioinfo.sickkids.on.ca Toronto, ON, M5G 1X8, CANADA.