From:	brettk AT compusmart DOT ab DOT ca (Brett Kosinski)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: gnuplot 3.5 ported to DJGPP and Allegro
References:	<199710200325 DOT UAA20915 AT adit DOT ap DOT net>
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Date:	22 Oct 97 21:02:49 GMT
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On Mon, 20 Oct 1997 03:25:42 GMT, Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net> wrote:
>Actually, there may be some legal issues. gnuplot, despite its name, is not
>GNU. There was an unfortunate coincidence in the naming. This is their
>copyright notice:
>
>   Permission to use, copy, and distribute this software and its
>   documentation for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted,
>   provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and
>   that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear
>   in supporting documentation.
>
>   Permission to modify the software is granted, but not the right to
>   distribute the modified code.  Modifications are to be distributed
>   as patches to released version.
>
>So I don't think I'd be allowed to package my modified version and put it on
>Simtelnet. Also, considering I only did the port yesterday and only two
>people have tried it, I don't really know if it's all that stable yet. It
>looks like all I can do is send it to the gnuplot folks and see what they
>think. And I'm not sure how happy they'll be about having their variables
>renamed, which I had to do to coexist with Allegro. But it would sure be
>nice if anyone wanted to test it! I can email my patch, about 25K.

If you are worried about this, just distribute the patch in the DJGPP
archive (you can do that, right??)  That way, if people want to use it, they
can just download the original GNU-Plot source and patch it... not much
extra work.

Brett.

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