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Re: Open CASCADE Technology Public License



Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 08 juin 2006 à 22:37 +0200, Aurelien Jarno a écrit :
>> Public license In short, Open CASCADE Technology Public License is
>> LGPL-like with certain differences. You are permitted to use Open
>> CASCADE Technology within commercial environments and you are
>> obliged to acknowledge its use. You are also obliged to send your
>> modifications of the original source code (if you have made any) to
>> the Initial Developer (i.e. Open CASCADE S.A.S.). Complete text of
>> the license is given below.
>
> The summary says the modifications should be sent to the Initial 
> Developer (which isn't free), however nothing in the license itself
> says that. I think a statement acknowledging that this summary isn't
> binding would be a good thing to obtain.

Agreed.

>> * If you distribute or sublicense the Software (as modified by You 
>> or on Your behalf as the case may be), You cause such Software to
>> be licensed as a whole, at no charge, to all third parties, under
>> the terms and conditions of the License, making in particular
>> available to all third parties the source code of the Software;
>
> No right to sell. I think this isn't good.

GPL v2:
>  b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
>     whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
>     part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
>     parties under the terms of this License.

:)

- Josh Triplett

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