Hi!
As far as I can work out the ambiguous advertising clause is the problem (as well as possibly clause 5 but that seems to be open for discussion).One conclusion from earlier discussions about the Julius license on debian-legal was that it was non-free: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-legal@lists.debian.org/msg40898.html The thread isn't completely clear to me what the exact problem is though...
I agree that this clause is quite badly worded and already asked about it in the Julius forums (I am "bedahr"): http://julius.sourceforge.jp/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=644-
But I never got a reply.
Is Julius dynamically linked to Simon? I wonder whether GPLv2 is compatible with the Julius license.
Yes it is. The simon license contains a special exception to allow this. This is also covered here: http://www.simon-listens.org/wiki/index.php/Licensing Regards, Peter