Hi, I am working on packaging Cernlib, a set of high-energy physics tools and libraries written for the CERN laboratories, under the sponsorship of Bas Zoetekouw. According to CERN, they have put Cernlib under the GPL. However, there are still a lot of source code files that have their own licenses and are not copyright by CERN. In some cases I plan to contact the original authors. In others, I may have to separate out parts of the code into libraries in non-free, or delete unused code from the Debian source tree. Still other parts are obviously GPL-compatible (BSD license for example) so I won't worry about them.
My question is this: some pieces of code have an approximately BSD license but with a no-advertising clause, such as the following: * Copyright (c) 1991, Visual Edge Software Ltd. * * ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Permission to use, copy, modify, and * distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose * and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above * copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting * documentation, and that the name of Visual Edge Software not be * used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of * the software without specific, written prior permission. The year * included in the notice is the year of the creation of the work. *-------------------------------------------------------------------*/ Is this GPL-compatible? If not, what would you suggest I do about it? Thanks in advance, -- Kevin McCarty Physics Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] Princeton University www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty Princeton, NJ 08544
