Re: New Jalview release -- hesitating on license
Hi Pierre,
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 10:48:13PM +0100, Pierre Gruet wrote:
> I'm stumbling upon the license terms of a part of the code (which is
> important enough so that the whole program really needs it) of the new
> release of Jalview I am packaging: that part has a license identical to
> BSD-3-clause except that clause 3 bas been changed to:
>
> 3. Redistributions must acknowledge that this software was
> originally developed by the UCSF Computer Graphics Laboratory
> under support by the NIH National Center for Research Resources,
> grant P41-RR01081.
>
> I'm really doubting this can be seen as DFSG-free:
> - "acknowledge" seems vague to me;
> - it looks like someone could be sued if he made a derived work without a
> sentence about the original developer and the grant number.
I agree it is vague but I personally assume that its just that you
mention the authors in your scientific results.
> Maybe you have a definitive answer? Else should I write to
> debian-legal@lists.debian.org or to FTPmasters ?
Keeping upstream as well as debian-legal in CC makes sense.
> Thanks a lot for your support in any case,
Thanks to you
Andreas.
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