HP-41 modules and GPL

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(04-09-2018 12:07 AM)Monte Dalrymple Wrote:  Which of these are you suggesting that I do:

1. Try to find the source code and somehow make it available?
or 2. Include a statement that says GPL requires source code be available?
or 3. Remove the GPL ROMs from the 41CL Flash?

Keep doing what you did before. Do nothing about this, at least until clearly proven otherwise.

As Guenter pointed out, many of those that mention GPL are not properly licensed as they do not use the correct name, neither do they come with a license file.

I would suspect that many old modules are not really GPL either. Someone put that license on them and forgot about the source code part of the deal. We were not told we could get the source code, nor was it provided. I would just keep distributing it as before until the situation is cleared up. Meaning, if some copyright holder come forward and complain, then we can get hold of the source code that is being withheld (after that we handle it correctly).

At this point I want to point out three things:

1. Technically there may be GPL source around here, but one can raise suspicion to whether that is indeed true (in almost every case). Thus, carry on as before.
2. In the future I hope people can be a little bit more considerate on using GPL, and perhaps consider some other license, and do it little bit more correct.
3. It would be nice if we could collect the knowledge about which modules we have the source code for and where it can be found.
   

The latter two are general requests, not related to 41CL.

Håkan