[Bug 476406] Review Request: sympow - Special Values of Symmetric Power Elliptic Curve L-Functions

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Jason Tibbitts <tibbs at math.uh.edu> changed:

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             Blocks|                            |182235(FE-Legal)




--- Comment #3 from Jason Tibbitts <tibbs at math.uh.edu>  2009-03-08 21:07:30 EDT ---
I don't believe the license of this package is actually BSD; at least, it's not
a BSD variant I've seen before.  The third clause is different to me:

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
  * Redistribution of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
 this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
  * Redistribution in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
 notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
 documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
  * If redistribution is done as a part of a compilation that has a more
 restrictive license (such as the GPL), then the fact that SYMPOW has
 a less restrictive license must be made clear to the recipient.
 For example, a line like (include bracketed text if SYMPOW is modified):
  "This compilation includes [a modification of] SYMPOW whose [original]
   code has a less-restrictive license than the entire compilation."
 should appear in a suitable place in the COPYING and/or LICENSE file.

Blocking FE-Legal for an opinion.  I wonder if the third clause might actually
render the software GPL-incompatible.  And even then, I'd have to leave it to a
lawyer to determine what "more restrictive" really means.

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