On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 22-Feb-08, at 4:20 PM, ಓಂ wrote: > > > They are looking at it from different perspective. And they have > > every right to do that. You branding them as non-FOSS does not change > > who and how they are! > > *I* have not branded them - even the OSI doesn't accept their license > as a an OSS license. And i our labs we had some enthusiastic students > who were modifying scilab - and about to release the modifications > when they found it couldnt be done ... >
I think only commercial distribution of modified works based on scilab is prohibited (Section 4 of the Scilab license). So unless the students were planning to distribute their contributions for profit, its another matter. Otherwise, they have just misunderstood the license. Also, BP is a not-for-profit organisation. For them Scilab is as good as open source software since they never intend to make commercial use of it. -aditya
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