[Aldor-l] workaround for: Re: problems with list of domains
Christian Aistleitner
tmgisi at gmx.at
Wed Nov 1 02:31:33 EST 2006
Hello Martin,
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:54:44 +0100, Martin Rubey
<martin.rubey at univie.ac.at> wrote:
>> [ bug concerning the conditional oxports of List ]
>>
>> Take the source code of List and define a
>> ListWithoutConditionalExports with
>> it.
>> Strip all the conditional exports out of the code.
>> That did the trick for me.
>>
>
> Could you send me such a List? I don't have the source code...
No. Because of the Aldor public license (APL).
Once the sources have been distributed with the compiler.
Therefrom, I got hold of the sources.
However, therefore I got the sources under the APL.
If I'd send you a modified source code of the Aldor library, I'd
distribute it. Therefore, according to the APL, I'd have to “grant
Aldor.org a royalty-free license to use, modify or redistribute without
limitation”.
Due to the “without limitation”, it would take away all rights from me,
except that I can say “I wrote the code”.
I even cannot untar the archive and send you just the corresponding
vanilla source file. Untarring is (maybe) a modification of their binary
distribution. Therefore, I again had to “grant Aldor.org a royalty-free
license to use, modify or redistribute without limitation” to the vanilla
source file I distributed.
However, I cannot do that, because I am not legally entitled to grant
anyone license to use, modify or redistribute without limitation. The
„without limitation” causes problems, because I am not given the code
without limitation.
It's a pain!
I'll tell you in a private mail, how you can legally get hold of the
sources. Any other one wanting to see the sources of libaldor, should
contact me via private mail.
--
Kind regards,
Christian
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