Hi, 2012/8/8 Luc Maisonobe <luc.maison...@free.fr>: > Le 08/08/2012 17:58, Christian Grobmeier a écrit : >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Sébastien Brisard >> <sebastien.bris...@m4x.org> wrote: >> >>>>> Does that mean that porting it into Commons-Math is possible >>>>> (license-wise?). I would think it does… >>>> >>>> That seems explicitly restrictive to me. e.g. If I don't claim to be in >>>> the general scientific community, the software has not been made available >>>> to me. >>>> >>> I agree with you. However, "scientific community" does seem a bit >>> vague to me. Arguably, anyone using Commons-*MATH* could claim to >>> belong to the scientific community... > > I would strongly argue against too simplistic interpretation. > Of course I'm not happy with this simplistic interpretation. Otherwise, I would not have asked in the first place. My point is that the statement on the web-page is very vague, and scientific community does not mean a lot to me, although I suspect that it excludes any commercial use. The thing is *that* is not clearly stated, and you could develop a commercial scientific software, and belong to the scientific community (in my opinion). Again, this point is for the sake of argument, I *know* this is far-fetched.
Another weird thing I've just realized. The code was developed by the US navy if I understand correctly, but is now hosted on a canadian page, so we need clarification. Maybe Jason will be able to talk to someone. > > For this kind of question, you should ask to the dedicated list at > apache. Please see <http://www.apache.org/legal/> and > <http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-legal>. > > I guess they will say "no, you cannot use this stuff". > My initial message was posted to both dev@ and legal-discuss@. Let's see what their answer is. I understand I should not be too optimistic. Thanks for all these answers, Sébastien --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
