Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence

2017-04-05 Thread Graham Inggs
On 30/03/2017 03:27, Drew Parsons wrote: On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 10:51 +0800, Drew Parsons wrote: If I'm reading that right, we can link it from BSD and LGPL libraries. Currently MUMPS is in Debian used by getfem++ LGPL petsc BSD-2 which is used by dolfin LGPL trilinos BSD

Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence

2017-03-29 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 10:51 +0800, Drew Parsons wrote: > > If I'm reading that right, we can link it from BSD and LGPL > libraries. > Currently MUMPS is in Debian used by > > getfem++   LGPL > petsc  BSD-2 > which is used by dolfin  LGPL > trilinos   BSD > code-aster GPL2 > > So there

Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence

2017-03-23 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 10:38:37 + Ian Jackson wrote: > Dmitry Alexandrov writes ("Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C > licence"): > > [Ian:] > > > (IMO it would not be fine if it specified Russian or Chinese courts.) > > >

Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence

2017-03-23 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 02:47:43 +0300 Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: [...] > > Francesco Poli dislikes the choice of law and courts clause, but I > > think it's fine. For the record, I think a choice of law clause is acceptable. On the other hand, I consider a choice of venue clause as a non-free

Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence

2017-03-23 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:04:48 + Ian Jackson wrote: > Drew Parsons writes ("Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence"): > > If I'm reading that right, we can link it from BSD and LGPL libraries. > > Currently MUMPS is in Debian used by > ... > > code

Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence

2017-03-23 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 11:04 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Drew Parsons writes ("Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C > licence"): > > If I'm reading that right, we can link it from BSD and LGPL > > libraries. > > Currently MUMPS is in Debian us

Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence

2017-03-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Drew Parsons writes ("Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence"): > If I'm reading that right, we can link it from BSD and LGPL libraries. > Currently MUMPS is in Debian used by ... > code-aster GPL2 This is a problem then. Is there any possibility of CeCILL bei

Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence

2017-03-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Dmitry Alexandrov writes ("Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence"): > [Ian:] > > (IMO it would not be fine if it specified Russian or Chinese courts.) > > Interesting idea. Any substantiation for such a discrimination of origin? Some courts are more trustworthy than others. Ian.

Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence

2017-03-22 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 13:07 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Drew Parsons writes ("freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C > licence"): > > There are various discussions about the status of the CeCILL-C > > licence > > v1 (and other CeCILL licences) in the history of this mailing > > list.  > > It's not

Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence

2017-03-22 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
[Sorry for sending unfinished letter.] > Francesco Poli dislikes the choice of law and courts clause, but I > think it's fine. IBM PL v1.0 contains a choice of law clause and it’s listed as suitable for Debian’s main [0]. As for arbitration clause, could anyone explain, what’s the practical

Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence

2017-03-22 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
> Francesco Poli dislikes the choice of law and courts clause, but I > think it's fine. (IMO it would not be fine if it specified Russian or > Chinese courts.) Interesting idea. Any substationation for such a discrimination of origin?

Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence

2017-03-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Drew Parsons writes ("freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence"): > There are various discussions about the status of the CeCILL-C licence > v1 (and other CeCILL licences) in the history of this mailing list. > It's not listed at https://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ > but when it last

Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence

2017-03-21 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 23:51:12 +0800 Drew Parsons wrote: > There are various discussions about the status of the CeCILL-C licence > v1 (and other CeCILL licences) in the history of this mailing list. The CeCILL-C license is a GPL-incompatible license, which may even be considered to fail to meet