Odd licenses

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Fri Feb 9 19:48:33 UTC 2007


On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:43:50PM -0500, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> adaptx license.txt
> [2]
> http://svn.codehaus.org/castor/adaptx/trunk/src/doc/license.txt

This seems to be BSD-like to me. There is condition that I dislike,
because it doesn't have an obvious meaning (a clause similar is often
seen on scientific packages):

5. Due credit should be given to the ExoLab Group (http://www.exolab.org).

It doesn't explain when credit is "due", how credit should be given.
Is it for the use, the redistribution, both? I don't think this is a
blocker, though. My interpretation is that having this license in the 
package is enough.

--
Pat




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