Re: [License] Gsas-II
Ben Finney writes:
>> * Distribution of changed, modified or derivative works based on
>> GSAS-II grants the GSAS-II copyright holder unrestricted permission
>> to include any, or all, new and changed code in future GSAS-II
>> releases.
>
> This is, IIUC, met by granting every recipient (including GSAS-II) this
> same license. This seems to be a weaker copyleft (one specific party
> must receive the same license). I think this is okay, if imbalanced.
It is icky. However, Ocaml, which is in main, has a clause (3b) with a
similar effect:
https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/o/ocaml/ocaml_4.01.0-5_copyright
>> * The software and the end-user documentation included with the
>> redistribution, if any, must include the following acknowledgment:
>> "This product includes software produced by UChicago Argonne, LLC
>> under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 with the Department of Energy."
>
> This is a burden on certain forms of work. This might make the work
> non-free.
Apache License 1.1 has almost the exact same wording.
Cheers,
Walter Landry
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