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Re: GPL: what does redistribution mean?



"Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@efis.ucr.ac.cr> writes:

> I'm just trying to make this program free software, and prevent the usual
> abuse that I've seen on the "scientific community" at the same time...
> (everyone is willing to publish papers, but almost noone is willing to
> publish source code -- and some papers are worthless without access to the
> programs used to perform the simulations, but yet they are published)

Well, that's hardly something to be fought with license legalese
- it is the fault of journal editors if they accept papers that
do not describe how to reproduce the results.

-- 
Henning Makholm


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