FreeLists / openbeostranslationkit / [openbeostranslationkit] Re: Datatypes Library

["Travis Smith" <sage@xxxxxxxx>]

> > but should be more modern.
> I suggest that we don't look at Atheos, since it is GPL'ed. 
> That would just be like opening pandoras box! :)
Without a doubt, agreed there. Jon Watte did infact write the Datatypes
Library for BeOS. I think before he joined the Be Team. At the end of
his documentation comes this paragraph:

<snip>
It is the intention that this copyright will be 
lifted and this document and its accompanying source 
be placed in the public domain at such time as the 
copyright holder sees fit. If the copyright holder 
has made no more representation with regards to 
this intention, and published no more changes to 
the document or its source code for one full year, 
the document and its accompanying source code and 
libraries are placed in the public domain. Please 
check with the copyright holder before assuming that 
this has taken place.
</snip>

So, I will attempt to contact Jon and see if this code is infact public
domain. It appears to be the basis for the Translation Kit, so we'd have
somewhere to stay without much trouble at all.

More later when I have more information.

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Travis Smith
sage at ieee dot org