Eiffel Forum License

[Patrick Doyle]

On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M. wrote:

> The Eiffel "license" is quite permissive.
>
 [...]
>
> The question is: what are you attempting to accomplish by use of a
> public license.  Your license has no copyleft provision. Why? There is
> no explicit reference to access to source code. Why? These questions are
> meant to get you started on considering what your goals are first. Then,
> draft the license you think will accomplish those goals. 

Thanks for the input.  I agree that these are useful things to consider,
perhaps for EFL version 2.

However, this is the license already used for a large number of software
packages, and I think the Eiffel Forum is interested in getting it
certified as-is for that reason.

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Patrick Doyle
doylep at ecf.toronto.edu