full-disclosure - Re: Nipper licensing

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Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 01:35:16 -0700
From: BMF <badmotherfsckr@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Nipper licensing

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Alan Buxey <A.L.M.Buxey@...ro.ac.uk> wrote:

> ouch. a couple of years ago we had some home-brew code doing the job.
> Nipper
> came along...was free..and did everything we did + a little more.
>
> but now it looks like we'll be picking up our old Perl code and fixing it
> up
> to do everything that Nipper does - and a little more.
>

Was Nipper not available as source and licensed so it could be forked in an
event such as this? If not, consider it an object lesson in free as in beer
vs free as in speech.

BMF

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