[Maintain] Purdue Bind<->Maintain Import and Export Scripts

Leslie Arvin arvin at purdue.edu
Tue Apr 12 14:34:18 PDT 2005


Greg Connor wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Leslie Arvin wrote:
> 
>>However, we have not yet received official approval
>>from Purdue University of our proposed licensing terms.  We are bound
>>by the rules of our university and must abide by the guidelines set
>>by the Purdue department responsible for software distribution.
> 
> 
> Hey Leslie,
> 
> Good luck with the project, and I know all of us are appreciative of the
> effort.
> 
> If you run into resistance with the lawyers, make sure to let them know
> whether any of the pieces you used as part of your project were borrowed from
> elsewhere... If you borrow pieces of other scripts that are GNU-licensed, then
> that should help convince them that parts of the project "might" be a
> "derivitave work" and therefore an open-source release may be the only release
> strategy that makes sense.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> gregc
> 
> --
> Greg Connor <gconnor at sgi.com>
> Netops Services Group

Thanks, we'll keep it in mind.  We have a Plan B and C on our approach
with the lawyers, if Plan A doesn't work.  Or should that be Plan 9?  ;-)

-- Leslie Arvin
    arvin at purdue.edu, Office: 765-49-63971
    Systems Administrator, ITT-Networks
    Purdue University, Information Technology at Purdue


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