scientific license - fedora compatible?

[Quentin Spencer]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:18:00AM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>   
>> On 23/05/06, Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
>>
>> >From my reading of the license currently under discussion, that is not
>> the restriction.
>>
>> They basically say, you can redistribute modified versions as long as
>> you make available to the patches for the changes you make.
>>     
>
> Yes, it seems you are right. I misread, but there is no explicit permission
> to redistribute modified version (the wording is 'use, copy, modify, and 
> enhance and distribute'). So I think I wrongly supposed, based on the following
> that the redistribution of modified source wasn't possible, but after a more
> carefull reading, it seems that it is not explicitely forbidden, as the 
> following states that the copyright of changes must be transfered to 
> upstream not anything else...
>   

I haven't read the license, but your descriptions sound similar to the 
license for gnuplot, which is in core. You may want to look at its 
license. I think it says that modifications may only be distributed as 
patches.

-Quentin