Re: Expat license and "free for academic users"
>>>>> "Andrius" == Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org> writes:
Andrius> Hello, [Please keep me in CC, I am not subscribed]
Andrius> I encountered a package EvoEF2 [1] which is licensed under
Andrius> Expat and has the following in its README.md:
Andrius> "EvoEF2 is free to academic users."
Andrius> To me such limitation seems to contradict the Expat
Andrius> license, but I wonder what is the legal opinion about such
Andrius> combination. I know that I can always ask the upstream for
Andrius> clarification which I did earlier when the restriction was:
I mean under xpat, it's certainly free for academic users, and it's also
free for everyone else.
Unless that statement in the readme is in a section called license or
otherwise claims to be a license, I'd treat it as xpat and move on with
life.
Sometimes the best approach to licensing is to take a defensible
position and not to try and find problems.
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