On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:38:02 -0400 John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Karl Fogel scripsit: > > > Just in case anyone else noticed this: > > > > > > https://www.cra.com/commercial-solutions/probabilistic-modeling-services.asp > > > > They want to be open source, and almost are, but they're using a > > custom license based on 3-clause BSD with an extra clause -- clause > > (4) -- that IMHO is problematic. I've attached the license to this > > mail. > > I don't think it is. Clauses 1 and 2 (as usual for BSD) require that > the license itself be preserved by downstream distributors. That > license already includes the pointer required by clause 4 -- in the > text of clause 4 itself. So clause 4 is self-satisfying taken in > conjunction with clauses 1 and 2. Ah, but what does it mean to have a pointer to probabilistic modeling services? :) _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
