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Is this copyright/license agreement Octave-compatible
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Is this copyright/license agreement Octave-compatible |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:00:00 -0600 |
On 16-Nov-2007, Josh Rigler wrote:
| This software may be copied or redistributed as long as it is
| not sold for profit, but it can be incorporated into any other
| substantive product with or without modifications for profit or
| non-profit. If the software is modified, it must include the
| following notices:
|
| * The software is not the original (for protection of the
| original author's reputations from any problems introduced
| by others)
|
| * Change history (e.g. date, functionality, etc.)
|
| This copyright notice must be reproduced on each copy made.
| This software is provided as is without any express or implied
| warranties whatsoever.
|
|
| For the life of me I don't know why they didn't just follow HDF and
| NetCDF's lead and write a genuine OSS-compliant license, but it does
| seem like it addresses the concerns raised by JWE over six years
| ago.
I don't see that it does, since it clearly states that it can't be
sold for profit, which is incompatible with the GPL.
jwe