OSLib license

[philip at philipnet.com]

Quoting Adam <lists at snowstone.org.uk>:

> In message <47478D14.7010501 at doves.demon.co.uk>, Jonathan Coxhead wrote:
>
>>    It would have been nice if the DeskLib/Desk people had seen in
>
> Like John, I'm not sure of the link in this thread to DeskLib - but I've
> only been involved with DeskLib for a relatively short time so maybe
> there's some "history"?

I too have only been involved with Desk within recent history. Any  
licence issue is water under the bridge as far as I am concerned.

>> OSLib something that would have inspired them to use it as the base
>> for their library: I think they could complement each other nicely.
>
> I think it would be great (for a couple of reasons) for DeskLib to move
> to using OSLib :)
>
> This discussion about licencing is interesting, because presumably the
> licences would need to be compatible if DeskLib starts using OSLib. The
> current DeskLib licence is a bespoke one. I have suggested before that
> it would be good to change it (I suggested MIT). Since then I've
> compiled a list of documented contributors so might be in a position to
> start trying to contact them to see if they'd agree to a licence change.

As I understand it - there is no restriction on what one can do with OSLib.
You can rework DeskLib/Desk to use it with out any legal issue.

Regards.

Phil L.




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