Hi Adam! You wrote:
> The license is at http://root.cern.ch/root/License.html. I'm assuming the > specific cause of concern is: > > "Additionally, the authors grant permission to modify this software and its > documentation for any purpose, provided that such modifications are not > distributed without the explicit consent of the authors" Even worse, it apparently links against Xclass (LGPL) and Cernlib (GPL) libraries[1], while the above license it clearly GPL- (and possibly(?) LGPL-) incompatible. Theredore, it cannot even be legally distributed. [1] http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/physics-software-rant.html -- Kind regards, +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bas Zoetekouw | GPG key: 0644fab7 | |----------------------------| Fingerprint: c1f5 f24c d514 3fec 8bf6 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] | a2b1 2bae e41f 0644 fab7 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
