Re: CeCILL license : Free Software License for french research
Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:24:29PM +0200, Florian Weimer
> <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>> * Lucas Nussbaum:
>>
>> > IANAL, but the license[4] look quite ok for me, even if the part about
>> > GPL compatibility seems a bit unclear.
>>
>> It looks like a fallback close similar to the LGPL. My french is
>> rusty, though, I shouldn't try to interpret contracts. 8->
>
> Alex Hudson <home@alexhudson.com> was able to find the english version
> of the license. It's here :
>
> http://www.inria.fr/valorisation/logiciels/Licence.CeCILL-V1.US.pdf
I didn't even bother to read most of it; it's too damn long.
Clause 5.3.4 should render it GPL-compatible. However, dammit, GPL is *not
defined* in the license; it should be defined up top. This is a license
bug.
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