Re: Tcllib and New License Addition?

Gerald Lester <Gerald.Lester@gmail.com> wrote:

On 11/9/24 05:12, greg wrote:

Hello,
I came across the license_fsul.terms file in the Tcllib repository. The
license conditions seem interesting and unconventional, as they require
payment for productive use. To me, this is rather unusual for an
open-source library, so I wonder if this was indeed intended or if the
file was perhaps added by mistake.
 
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcllib/file?name=license_fsul.terms

 
WTF, the proper license is
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcllib/file?name=license.terms.
 
This was added in https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcllib/info/0b0d3c2be7e04e75
and seems to apply to the AES upgrade, in particular to the use of the
accelerator and the test suite.
 
I hold copyright to several of the packages in TclLib and do not agree
to the change to the general TclLib licensing.  We can't pollute TclLib
with GPL licnses!
 
I'm wondering if Thorsten Schloermann, Pat Thoyts, Andreas Kupries and
agreed to Nathan Coulter change of the license terms since they are the
origingal copyright holders.

So, once again, pooryorick (aka Nathan Coulter) up to no good.

First the wiki, now Tcllib.