Re: SWI Prolog license
On 25 Mar 1998 john@dhh.gt.org wrote:
> Milan Zamazal writes:
> > Could someone please check I'm right and that SWI Prolog can be moved
> > from non-free to main? Thanks.
>
> The sentence "This licence agreement is intended to give anyone the right
> to share SWI-Prolog for non-commercial use." is in what seems to be a
> prologue and not part of the license. It also doesn't really express a
> restriction. You might ask the author to clarify it, though.
>
> This causes me a bit of concern, though:
>
> 6. If you base research on SWI-Prolog and publish on this research,
> you must include appropriate acknowledgements and references to
> SWI-Prolog in your publication.
>
> Is this a restriction on a field of endeavor? What is he getting at here?
Fame and glory! ;-)
I think this is very similar to the requirement that the copyright appear
on all derived or otherwise distributed work. The author simply wants
recognition for his work. I would not identify this as a restriction on
fields of endeavor.
Luck,
Dwarf
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