On 13 April 2018 at 11:25, Vincent Delecroix <20100.delecr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/04/2018 11:20, Francesco Biscani wrote: > >> http://scip.zib.de/academic.txt >> >> """ >> 1. This license applies to you only if you are a member of a noncommercial >> and academic institution, e.g., a university. The license expires as >> soon as you are no longer a member of this institution. >> """ >> >> So basically these acedemics, I imagine funded with taxpayers' money, are >> preventing the general public to use software they paid for? >> >> Talk about ivory tower... >> > > This is indeed a problem with PySCIPOpt. I don't think this is a bad > intention. My point of view is that they wanted to have a form of dual > licensing for making happy (paying) customers that in many situations do > not like open source. Not to prevent users to use it. Moritz might > infirm or confirm. > > If the package appears to be useful (I think it is) we could ask > kindly to package PySCIPOpt under GPL or LGPL. > > I know of at least the CGAL project where the distinction is made > cleaner [1]: they offer a GPL and a commercial version... and they *do* > have customers (enough for 8 salaries). > > Best > Vincent > > [1] https://www.cgal.org/license.html I can sort-of sympathise with the intention. But I cannot understand why they decided to roll their own license instead of going with the usual dual licensing everyone is doing. Perhaps because they wanted to enforce the "thou shalt cite me" clause? As an academic myself, I also cannot understand how they could possibly think that putting artificial barriers for the use of the software by non-academic "non-commercial" individuals could possibly be a good idea ethically. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
