Drew Parsons wrote: > - viewmol (ftp://ccl.osc.edu/pub/chemistry/software/SOURCES/C/viewmol/) > > viewmol supplies source which compiles (and also an rpm, which > segfaulted under potato). The copyright statement inside their > documentation indicates that "Permission to use, copy, and > distribute VIEWMOL in its entirety, for non-commercial and > non-military purposes,
Both `for non-commercial and non-military purposes' make it non-free. > is hereby granted without fee, provided > that this license information and copyright notice appear in > all copies." They go on to state "Licenses for commercial use > can be obtained from the author." without specifying what that > license might entail (gratis or what?) They also state that > "Modification of the source code is permitted. ", and invite > any modifications to be sent to them for inclusion in the > official code. This looks okay for non-free. > I'm not so certain about viewmol, however. It's terms of > copyright seem close in spirit to the free software guidelines, > although I expect we would have check with the author about the > meaning of the commercial use clause. You might want to talk to them about it, but perhaps this is typical in your field (and the author has a hope of eventually making a pile of money from some company that want the software). Peter
