Thank you Tom for the reply<div>I have another developer of Genuis 3D. Its a proprietary code so far, but they have plans of open sourcing it. However, the developer mentioned that it will be GPL with some additions. I guess that would make it GPL incompatible. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tcallawa@redhat.com">tcallawa@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 10/14/2009 07:35 AM, Ziyad Saeed wrote:<br>
> There is a question by one of the opensource developers of NanoTCAD<br>
> whether his code which is a 4-clause BSD is allowed to be packaged in<br>
> Fedora Electronics Lab or not.<br>
<br>
</div>Ziyad,<br>
<br>
It is permitted, but it is worth mentioning that because of the<br>
"advertising" clause, this license is GPL incompatible, which may cause<br>
problems with other software.<br>
<br>
The original author of the BSD license (Regents of the University of<br>
California) has stopped using the advertising clause, and has withdrawn<br>
it from all code for which they are the copyright holder. I would<br>
strongly advise the NanoTCAD developer to also drop the advertising clause.<br>
<br>
For more information, see:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#UC_Berkeley_advertising_clause" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#UC_Berkeley_advertising_clause</a><br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Tom Callaway, Fedora Legal<br>
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