Hi Pierre, On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 10:48:13PM +0100, Pierre Gruet wrote: > I'm stumbling upon the license terms of a part of the code (which is > important enough so that the whole program really needs it) of the new > release of Jalview I am packaging: that part has a license identical to > BSD-3-clause except that clause 3 bas been changed to: > > 3. Redistributions must acknowledge that this software was > originally developed by the UCSF Computer Graphics Laboratory > under support by the NIH National Center for Research Resources, > grant P41-RR01081. > > I'm really doubting this can be seen as DFSG-free: > - "acknowledge" seems vague to me; > - it looks like someone could be sued if he made a derived work without a > sentence about the original developer and the grant number.
I agree it is vague but I personally assume that its just that you mention the authors in your scientific results. > Maybe you have a definitive answer? Else should I write to > [email protected] or to FTPmasters ? Keeping upstream as well as debian-legal in CC makes sense. > Thanks a lot for your support in any case, Thanks to you Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
