[Fedora-legal-list] OpenPBS license

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Aug 16 11:47:17 UTC 2007


Garrick Staples wrote:
> The license for TORQUE is under the OpenPBS license and isn't in the Fedora list of approved licenses, so I am sending it to you for review.  The license text is attached.
> 
> Note that only points 3-6 must be met as the others have expired in 2001.
> 
> points 3 and 4 are met because none required notices have been removed.
> 
> point 5 is met by, at least, the Addendum at the bottom of the file.

This license because of the expiry of clauses 1 and 2 looks close to the 
Original BSD license which is Free software although not GPL compatible. 
The one substantial differences seems to be the condition on clause 5 
which insists on original and modified source code.

Rahul




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