Yet another license question

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:24:25PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> dxhdf5 package: http://www-beams.colorado.edu/dxhdf5/.  No, it seems to 
> place a burden on users of the code, but not distributors.
> 
>  * Any publications or presentations, including but not limited to
>    journal articles, web publications, or conference presentations or
>    proceedings, resulting from the use of this software must include
>    the phrase "visualizations made in part through use of the DXHDF5
>    package from the University of Colorado" and then must refer to
> 
>      I. Szczesniak, J. R. Cary, "dxhdf5: a software package for
>      importing HDF5 physics data into OpenDX," Computer Physics
>      Communications, vol. 164, issue 1-3, pp. 365-369, 2004.
> 
>    in any visual or written material associated with such publication
>    or presentation.

This is like the old BSD clause. This adds restriction to use, so, in
my opinion it is not free software as defined by the OSI. Many 
scientific packages have (or had) similar clauses, making them unfree
in that sense.

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Pat