> -----Original Message----- > From: jcar...@carmanconsulting.com > [mailto:jcar...@carmanconsulting.com] On Behalf Of James Carman > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 14:54 > To: Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [all] NSWC and Apache license > > Do we have any contact with the maintainers/creators of this stuff? > If so, we may be able to ask for them to grant it to the ASF?
Yes, I work there (different location). Investigating that presently. > > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Luc Maisonobe > <luc.maison...@free.fr> wrote: > > 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. > > 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". > > > >> > >> If somebody writes a webbased SPSS or a company like creates > >> statistics on the SO usage with Math? Surely this is > commercial use > >> and not really science? > >> > >> Anyway the AL2.0 does not have restrictions who can use it > or not; my > >> guess is it is not directly compatible. > > > > This is also my guess. > > > > Luc > > > >> > >> But you really should ask legal@ in this case. I have not > seen this > >> license listed here: > >> http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html > >> > >> But they might be able to help you anyway. > >> > >> Cheers > >> Christian > >> > >>> > >>> Sébastien -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00.
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