[Fedora-legal-list] Version 1 of the CeCILL license

[Mamoru Tasaka]

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote, at 10/15/2008 12:19 PM +9:00:
> Remember just last week when it was mentioned that folks would look at
> CeCILL v1 when someone submitted something under that license?  Well,
> there was already something in the review queue and tonight I happened
> upon it: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465750
> 
> R-GeneR, a specific bit of genetics software, seems to be under CeCILL
> v1 as evidenced by the copying file, which begins with "FREE SOFTWARE
> LICENSING AGREEMENT CeCILL" and ends with "Version 1 of 06/21/2004".
> 
> Of specific interest here is GPL (v2) compatibility, because R is
> GPLv2 and R plugins are linked with both libR and libreadline.
> 
>  - J<

As far as I checked the CeCILLv1, this is GPL compatible, because
of the section 5.3.4.

Mamoru