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Bug#140103:



> From file LICENCE:
> 
> | Alliance  is  freely  available  under  the terms  of  the  GNU  General                           
> | Public License.  Please read the files  COPYING-2.0 and COPYING.LIB-2.0.                           
> | (More  info at  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/)  Alliance binaries,  cells                           
> | libraries, documentation and source code are covered by GPL, except some                           
> | Alliance's base libraries which are LGPL.                                                          
> |                                                                                                    
> | You are welcome to use the software package even for commercial designs                            
> | without any fee. You are just required to mention :                                                
> |                                                                                                    
> | "Designed with Alliance CAD system,  Copyright (C) 1991, 2000 Université                           
> |                          Pierre et Marie Curie"                                                    
> 
> The same can be found on the web page.  Before you upload it you'll have
> to sort out this self-contradicting license with that university.  The
> advertising requirement has to be removed without replacement, otherwise
> they shouldn't be bragging about it being GPL because it isn't.
> 
Seems Alliance have changed that requirement to a request. So it should be compatible 
with the GPL now. I don't know if anybody is still interested in it.


-- 
Satya Narayan Mishra <snmishra@hotpop.com>






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