Re: Conflicting license for Adeona?

2008-07-26 Thread Ben Finney
"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not sure though. […] > It is rather common for Universities' legal departments to have > unusual theories about copyright law. […] > As such, I would recommend cation when dealing with software from a > univeristy. > > So recieving a clarification

Re: Conflicting license for Adeona?

2008-07-26 Thread Joe Smith
"Arnoud Engelfriet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ben Finney wrote: I don't think "is intended for [use Foo, Bar, Baz] only" is a restriction upon the recipient. It states the *intent*, but isn't phrased as a condition or restriction on what the recipient actually

Re: Conflicting license for Adeona?

2008-07-25 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Ben Finney wrote: > I don't think "is intended for [use Foo, Bar, Baz] only" is a > restriction upon the recipient. It states the *intent*, but isn't > phrased as a condition or restriction on what the recipient actually > may do. I agree. My reading is that this is a warning of some kind. If you

Re: Conflicting license for Adeona?

2008-07-24 Thread Ben Finney
Francois Marier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here is the full text of the license: Thanks. > TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE > > This program is offered "AS IS". Any use of this program is entirely > at the user's own risk. Any output from this program is intended for > informational, research and

Re: Conflicting license for Adeona?

2008-07-24 Thread Francois Marier
Here is the full text of the license: Adeona version 0.2.1 as of July 14, 2008 Copyright (c) 2007-2008 University of Washington, Gabriel Maganis, Thomas Ristenpart, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Arvind Krishnamurthy TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE This program is offered "AS IS". Any use of this program is

Re: Conflicting license for Adeona?

2008-07-24 Thread Ben Finney
Francois Marier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Please CC me on your responses) Done. > I was looking at Adeona [0] and considering ITPing [1] it but then > noticed that the license [2] was a bit weird. Could you please post the complete text of the license in this thread, so we (and hypothetica

Conflicting license for Adeona?

2008-07-24 Thread Francois Marier
(Please CC me on your responses) Hi all, I was looking at Adeona [0] and considering ITPing [1] it but then noticed that the license [2] was a bit weird. Under "TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION", it's using the GPLv2, so that's fine. However, under "TERMS AND COND