Re: european data grid
On 2003-10-13 16:46:41 +0100 A Mennucc <mennucc1@debian.org> wrote:
<http://eu-datagrid.web.cern.ch/eu-datagrid/license.html>
Interesting. It seems to be an "old BSD" style licence, with some
clauses combined and the following addition:
4. You are under no obligation to provide anyone with any bug fixes,
patches,
upgrades or other modifications, enhancements or derivatives of the
features,functionality or performance of this software that you may
develop.
However, if you publish or distribute your modifications,
enhancements or
derivative works without contemporaneously requiring users to enter
into a
separate written license agreement, then you are deemed to have
granted
participants in the EU DataGrid a worldwide, non-exclusive,
royalty-free,
perpetual license to install, use, reproduce, display, modify,
redistribute
and sub-license your modifications, enhancements or derivative works,
whether
in binary or source code form, under the license conditions stated in
this
list of conditions.
The intent seems to be to create a weak-copyleft-default licence that
looks like the BSD one. I think it is GPL-incompatible for the same
reasons as the old BSD licence (so pay attention when using it), but I
think it may be DFSG-free.
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