On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, David Johnson wrote: > On Friday 30 November 2001 03:31 pm, Tina Gasperson wrote: > > ACARA (http://www.openchannelsoftware.com/projects/ACARA) is a program > > originally developed by NASA. ACARA is now being handled by the Open > > Channel Foundation (http://www.openchannelsoftware.com). ACARA's license > > terms > > (http://www.openchannelsoftware.com/project/view_license.php?group_id=129&l > >icense_id=20) violate at least three points of the Open Source definition > > (AFAIK, IANAL), yet the Open Channel Foundation claims all of the software > > it distributes is open source. > > > > Is this OK from a legal standpoint? >
> There's no trademark on the term "wool carpet", yet if I sold you a wool > carpet that was really acrylic, I would be in a world of legal hurt. AFAIK openchannelsoftware.com has several similar offerings which are not really Open Source e.g. their NASTRAN offering (also developed by NASA) Regards, -- martin // Martin Konold, Stauffenbergerstr. 107, 72074 Tuebingen, Germany // // Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // // KDE 2.2.1: It is real! // -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3