scientific license - fedora compatible?

Jonathan Underwood jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Tue May 23 15:59:25 UTC 2006


On 23/05/06, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/23/06, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The program is distributed under a license which permits copying and
> > modification of the source code. However, modified versions are only
> > allowed to be distributed as patch files: as such, the gnuplot licence
> > is not compatible with the GPL, and is not free software (according to
> > FSF, DFSG, and OSI).
>
> Your assessment as to the acceptability of 'patch distribution'
> restrictions is absolutely incorrect with regard to the DFSG and OSI.
> If you have authoritative references which you are relying on to back
> up your assessment, cite them.

If you had read my mail, you would see that I was quoting wikipedia -
that wasn't my statement, and I prefixed it by saying it was not
necessarily authoratitve. Thanks for the flame though, it warmed my
cockles.

Jonathan.




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