Just in case anyone else noticed this: https://www.cra.com/commercial-solutions/probabilistic-modeling-services.asp
They want to be open source, and almost are, but they're using a custom license based on 3-clause BSD with an extra clause -- clause (4) -- that IMHO is problematic. I've attached the license to this mail. (You get to their download by filling in a registration form, which is annoying of course and not normal for most open source projects, but is not in itself contradictory to the OSD in any way.) I already contacted them about their license by using their web form. Hopefully they'll understand the issue and switch to plain BSD. These discussions always take at least a few days, so let's see what happens. Best, -Karl
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