--- Richard Fateman wrote:
> It seems to me that Maxima is not commercial
> and therefore ACM routines can be used. But I am not
> a lawyer.
>
> who is going to complain, ACM who doesn't even respond
> to email?
> My understanding is that if they don't complain within
> 2 years, the common law interpretation is that they
> have no objections. But I am not a lawyer..
Well, I think we need to keep our noses clean in a pretty big way.
The attempt to contact ACM could be used as a "due diligence"
kind of defense if ACM wanted to make trouble for us, but I
don't think we can treat it like positive evidence.
Maxima is not commercial software, but GPL doesn't rule out
commercial use, and the ACM license does rule out commercial use.
I'm inclined to believe that attempting to mix ACM-license
stuff into Maxima would be a headache.
Not a lawyer either,
Robert Dodier
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