License Question

[Horst H. von Brand]

Christopher Stone <chris.stone at gmail.com> wrote:

[...]

> Could someone who knows a lot about legal stuff please review this license:
> 
> http://www.pdflib.com/products/pdflib-family/pdflib-lite/pdflib-lite-licensing/
>
> And tell me definitively whether or not it is OSI compatible, and if
> not, tell me *exactly* why it is not so that perhaps we could
> influence upstream to change the license where needed?

You'd better ask the OSI people about this, they have a list of approved
licenses at <http://www.opensource.org/licenses>. In any case, I'd follow
David Wheeler's advise <http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/gpl-compatible.html>
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