On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 04:39:50PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > --On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 8:03 am -0600 john@dhh.gt.org wrote: > > > Milan Zamazal writes: > > > >> This makes SWI Prolog non-free because of one its licensing clause: > > > >> 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. > > > > IMHO that is a restriction on use and fails the present DFSG. It is also > > so vague as to be impossible to comply with. > > Interesting. > > To the extent that your research is a 'derived' work of SWI-Prolog, this > restriction is perfectly admissible. It kinda looks to me like a form of the BSD advertising clause.. > Also, it is clearly routine academic behaviour to do so. A piece of > research is worthless unless it explains how to replicate the results, and > part of this explanation will necessarily be 'appropriate acknowledgements > and references'. > > So, in some sense this is a 'non-restriction'. > > However, it could be construed to fail the current DFSG. Maybe we should > exempt this (it doesn't impinge on the freeness of the software, as a piece > of software). > > Jules > > P.S. Yes, it should be on -legal. I'm maintaining the CC to -devel to give > all those on -devel who haven't noticed -legal's existence yet a chance to > subscribe. I suggest we drop the -devel CC on the next response. > > > /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ > | Jelibean aka | jules@jellybean.co.uk | 6 Evelyn Rd | > | Jules aka | jules@debian.org | Richmond, Surrey | > | Julian Bean | jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk | TW9 2TF *UK* | > +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ > | Debian GNU/Linux - "Microsoft *does* have a year 2000 problem - | > | and we're it!" (paraphrased from IRC) | > \----------------------------------------------------------------------/ > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > > -- Show me the code or get out of my way.
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