Re: Re-homing of RAToolSet to RIPE NCC

[Bill Manning <]

% Like I said, most (techie) people don't give a hoot, but legal
% departments at largish outfits can seriously halt Progress(tm). Although
% RIPE and the RIPE NCC are non-profit organisations, most of the members
% are most definitely out to make a (euro-)buck. It's only proper that if
% these tools are to be hosted/provided/maintained by the RIPE NCC, that
% the restrictive license is removed. Replacing it with a RIPE/RIPE NCC
% copyright may make non-RIPE members nervous, so I still think a GNU-like
% license is the safest and fairest option.


	I spect that the USC tag still claims that it needs to stay
	w/ the code so RIPE would need to do a "clean-room"
	reimplementation to expunge the USC tag.

	Of course RIPE could also cut a deal w/ USC on broad
	commercial use of the tools.  That has often proved to
	be the cheapest/easiest course. 
% 
% Cheers,
% Steven
% 


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--bill