Re: Geant4 Software License, version 1.0
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
> * MJ Ray:
> > of clauses 4 (automatic donation to upstream),
> [...] You retain your exploitation rights, you only
> grant upstream a free license. This is just a form of copyleft, only
> that the source license is granted to upstream, not the party that
> receives the code.
Why does copyleft mean giving non-licensees a free licence? I thought
copyleft meant future licensing needed to be under similar free terms.
Why is free licensing of source to non-licensees not donation?
> > maybe 5 (discrimination against fields of use) below.
>
> Debian should not protect the freedom to file software patents. If
> the DFSG required this, we would have to change them.
I think you are misreading the clause. It is not limited to software
patents.
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