* MJ Ray: > Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> I would be interested to hear your opinions on the Geant4 Software >> License, version 1.0 [1]. [...] >> [1] http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/license/LICENSE.html > > I think it is clearly GPL-incompatible (as you noted) for reasons > similar to the old BSD licence and it might not follow the DFSG because > of clauses 4 (automatic donation to upstream),
I think you are misreading the clause. It's not a donation of the modified code base. You retain your exploitation rights, you only grant upstream a free license. This is just a form of copyleft, only that the source license is granted to upstream, not the party that receives the code. > maybe 5 (discrimination against fields of use) below. Debian should not protect the freedom to file software patents. If the DFSG required this, we would have to change them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
