Re: [Chicken-users] On eggs and their licensing

[Stephen Eilert]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:43:43AM -0300, Stephen Eilert wrote:
>> SRFI I have no idea. Ditto about the TK egg and the Bremer License,
>> the page didn't load for me here at work.
>
> The TK eggs and Bremer license were topic of a discussion a couple
> years back:
>
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2008-02/msg00565.html
>
> Turned out that Bremer license is equivalent to BSD, but without the
> disclaimer which apparently makes the license void under German law.
> I find it hard to believe that one clause can void an entire license
> but apparently that's how it is.
>
> Unfortunately, I was never able to contact Wolf-Dieter Busch to ask
> him about this and a possible license switch to BSD.  You're welcome to
> give it another try, though!

If this makes the license void under the German law I can understand
the reasoning.

I'll give it another try in any case.

Did anyone contact the FSF about that license? I can't find it in the thread.

-- Stephen

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