Re: Geant4 Software License, version 1.0

2006-07-06 Thread MJ Ray
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * MJ Ray: > > of clauses 4 (automatic donation to upstream), > [...] You retain your exploitation rights, you only > grant upstream a free license. This is just a form of copyleft, only > that the source license is granted to upstream, not the party that > rece

Re: Geant4 Software License, version 1.0

2006-07-06 Thread MJ Ray
Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > How exactly does automatic upstream licence violate the DFSG? This is how I think it *might* (as written previously, I'm unsure): 1. what is meant by entering into a separate written license agreement? 2. is it the same licence if it's the original+total donation up

Re: Geant4 Software License, version 1.0

2006-07-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* MJ Ray: > Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> I would be interested to hear your opinions on the Geant4 Software >> License, version 1.0 [1]. [...] >> [1] http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/license/LICENSE.html > > I think it is clearly GPL-incompatible (as

Re: Geant4 Software License, version 1.0

2006-07-05 Thread Michael Poole
Joe Smith writes: > "MJ Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> I would be interested to hear your opinions on the Geant4 Software > >> License, version 1.0 [1]. [..

Re: Geant4 Software License, version 1.0

2006-07-05 Thread Joe Smith
"MJ Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I would be interested to hear your opinions on the Geant4 Software License, version 1.0 [1]. [...] [1] http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/license/LICENSE.html I t

Re: Geant4 Software License, version 1.0

2006-07-05 Thread MJ Ray
Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I would be interested to hear your opinions on the Geant4 Software > License, version 1.0 [1]. [...] > [1] http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/license/LICENSE.html I think it is clearly GPL-incompatible (as you noted) for reasons similar to the

Geant4 Software License, version 1.0

2006-07-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi debian-legal, I would be interested to hear your opinions on the Geant4 Software License, version 1.0 [1]. Until a few days ago Geant4 did not actually have a license, making it technically undistributable; the new license applies to the just-released Geant4 version 8.1 (and presumably