[Jeff Squyres <jsquyres@lsc.nd.edu>] New LAM/MPI license
Greetings! The lam upstream authors just sent me this notice of their
intent to change their license from the current GPL. Does this pose
any problems for Debian?
Take care,
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Camm Maguire camm@enhanced.com
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:28:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeff Squyres <jsquyres@lsc.nd.edu>
To: Anas Nashif - SuSE <nashif@suse.de>,
Black Lab Linux <suggest@blacklablinux.com>,
Camm Maguire - Debian <camm@enhanced.com>,
Mike Wangsmo - RedHat <wanger@redhat.com>,
Tom Rini - LinuxPPC <trini@kernel.crashing.org>,
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Yanick Cote <yanick@OpenBSD.ORG>, Todd Fries <todd@fries.net>
Subject: New LAM/MPI license
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Greetings.
Just wanted to give you a heads up that we will be changing the license of
LAM/MPI soon. The goal is still to have a license such that folks like
you can still use LAM/MPI any way that you want -- i.e., distribute it,
change it, charge support for it, etc., etc.
The reason that we are doing this is because our group will be leaving
Notre Dame within the next few months and moving to Indiana University.
This is public knowledge, but we haven't really announced it yet (so
please don't say anything on the list yet, for example).
Can you have a look at the license below (it's the "artistic" license) and
let me know if this will be suitable for you? From my reading of it, it
is, but I wanted to check with you as well. This is one of the possible
licenses that we're considering; please let me know if you see any
show-stoppers below.
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COPYRIGHT NOTICE:
Copyright 1998-2001, .........
Authors: ........
The LAM/MPI "Artistic License"
Preamble
The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a
Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some
semblance of artistic control over the development of the package,
while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute
the Package in a more-or-less free fashion, plus the right to make
reasonable modifications.
Definitions
"Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the Copyright
Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files created through
textual modification.
"Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been modified,
or has been modified in accordance with the wishes of the Copyright Holder
as specified below.
"Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or copyrights for
the package.
"You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing this
Package.
"Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the basis of media
cost, duplication charges, time of people involved, and so on. (You will
not be required to justify it to the Copyright Holder, but only to the
computing community at large as a market that must bear the fee.)
"Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item itself,
though there may be fees involved in handling the item. It also means that
recipients of the item may redistribute it under the same conditions they
received it.
1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the
Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you
duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated
disclaimers.
2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications
derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder. A Package
modified in such a way shall still be considered the Standard Version.
3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way,
provided that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file
stating how and when you changed that file, and provided that you do
at least ONE of the following:
a. place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make
them Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet
or an equivalent medium, or placing the modifications on a major
archive site such as uunet.uu.net, or by allowing the Copyright Holder
to include your modifications in the Standard Version of the Package.
b. use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization.
c. rename any non-standard types and functions so the names do not
conflict with Standard Vibrary, which must also be provided, and
provide a separate documentation for each non-standard type of function
that clearly documents how it differs from the Standard Version.
d. make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
4. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this
Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this
Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However,
you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly
commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial)
software distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package
as a product of your own.
5. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or
promote products derived from this software without specific prior
written permission.
DISCLAIMER:
LICENSOR MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
By way of example, but not limitation, Licensor MAKES NO
REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY
PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE COMPONENTS
OR DOCUMENTATION WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS
OR OTHER RIGHTS.
The Authors and .... shall not be held liable for any liability nor for
any direct, indirect or consequential damages with respect to any claim by
LICENSEE or any third party on account of or arising from this Agreement
or use of this software.
Any disputes arising out of this Agreement or LICENSEE'S use of the
software at any time shall be resolved by the courts of the state of
Indiana. LICENSEE hereby consents to the jurisdiction of the Indiana
courts and waives the right to challenge the jurisdiction thereof in
any dispute arising out of this Agreement or Licensee's use of the
software.
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{+} Jeff Squyres
{+} squyres@cse.nd.edu
{+} Perpetual Obsessive Notre Dame Student Craving Utter Madness
{+} "I came to ND for 4 years and ended up staying for a decade"
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