Re: ARRL's LoTW with Debian Sarge
* Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net> [2003 Sep 26 13:58 -0500]:
> There is a Yahoo mailing list for the TrustedQSL project
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TrustedQSL/>, also a web site at
> >http://www.trustedqsl.org> and one at Sourceforge
> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/trustedqsl>, however I didn't find
> any discussion of the rationale for the choice of license at any of the
> above sites.
It's interesting to note that the SF page claims the license to be LGPL,
but a quick check of the latest source tarballs shows the license file
still to be unchanged from previous versions.
As for rationale, my assumption is that ARRL did not want to exclude
proprietary or Free software authors from using the library. A BSD
style license would seem an obvious choice here.
Personally, I don't find the attribution clause in this license to be
objectionable enough to consider the code non-free. A couple of the
other clauses leave me wondering how Debian-legal will classify it.
73, de Nate >>
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