as of today the Misckit license is quite a bit strange as compared to other popular open source licences. It is probably best compared with the BSD licence. The strange thing is about documentation: only the author may distribute *printed* documentation, which - I guess - was to retain some symbolic right to the author.
The misckit is totally outdated. The last mailing on the mailing list is over one year back and regular postings have ceased for 3 years or so. Code could be included as is (retain copyright notices...) since the licence is not "contaminating". Feel free to contact individual authors since the misckit community used to be very cooperative.
Best wishes,
Stefan
"Philippe C.D. Robert" wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 18:25:25 +0200
> Fabien VALLON <fvallon@fr.alcove.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Just a question :
> > Can we use MiscKit program Code with GPL Code ?
> > with LGPL code?
> > with BSD code ?
>
> The new MiscKit will have a new licensing scheme. The comment on misckit.org
> says:
>
> The new license will be based on a popular license (either the BSD or MIT
> license) so that it will be familiar to folks who need to review such things
> (like legal departments of companies that wish to use MiscKit, etc.)
>
> Maybe you want to contact Don directly, he certainly knows best the answer to
> your question?
>
> -Phil
> --
> Philippe C.D. Robert
> Software Engineer
> Silicon Graphics, Inc.