[Oberon] Oberon License Issues

[volkert at nivoba.de]

Am 09.05.2014 19:31, schrieb volkert at nivoba.de:
> Am 09.05.2014 19:20, schrieb David Egan Evans:
>>> Where are the "license issues"?
>> There's a couple open-source licenses used for ETH Oberon software, such as the one you listed. However, Wirth holds copyright on the original Project Oberon code, and the new one. I've written him asking about this, but he has not responded. If Wirth doesn't explicitly license the source, we can't use it beyond the fair use implied by Wirth's posting of the source texts and books on his website.
> I see. Maybe Paul Reed can convince NW to put "Project Oberon" under
> license f.e. MIT License, as Markus Greim suggested.
>
Or as BSD 2- Clause as Blackbox or ETH Oberon.

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