scientific license - fedora compatible?

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:39:45PM -0700, Tim Fenn wrote:
> in section 2.1 ("CCP4 Libraries"), which allows the licensee to
> distribute the library freely, but requires any non-LGPL or non-GPL
> derived work to be provided in source form to the CCLRC (section
> 2.1.2).
> 
> Is this compatible with fedora-extras?

You'll find a lot of scientific software using bogus licensing
texts (usually meaning well, but since scientists are even less a
lawyer than the rest of us, it's like backfire on them).

Usually if you explain the issues to the authors they will gladly
review the licensing.

Maybe it would be helpful to have a licensing FAQ page in the wiki
which can be used to point authors to (maybe there already is one?).
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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