Thank you Tom for the replyI 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.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway <tcall...@redhat.com>wrote: > On 10/14/2009 07:35 AM, Ziyad Saeed wrote: > > There is a question by one of the opensource developers of NanoTCAD > > whether his code which is a 4-clause BSD is allowed to be packaged in > > Fedora Electronics Lab or not. > > Ziyad, > > It is permitted, but it is worth mentioning that because of the > "advertising" clause, this license is GPL incompatible, which may cause > problems with other software. > > The original author of the BSD license (Regents of the University of > California) has stopped using the advertising clause, and has withdrawn > it from all code for which they are the copyright holder. I would > strongly advise the NanoTCAD developer to also drop the advertising clause. > > For more information, see: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#UC_Berkeley_advertising_clause > > Thanks, > > Tom Callaway, Fedora Legal >
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