If you want to use it in a comerical venture you probably need to pony up and consult a laywer. That will protect you and prevent you from abusing OSS projects. On May 18, 2011 8:13 PM, "m p" <miche...@gmail.com> wrote: > The confusion I still have is when the Kepler license says "Kepler Project > keep its copyright" > > What is "its"? > > Is "it" referring to a copyright over the actual code base? Is "it" > referring to a copyright over what exactly? > > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Yuri Takhteyev <y...@sims.berkeley.edu >wrote: > >> > No, the Kepler license is not the same the MIT license. >> > Specifically, the Kepler license added: " Kepler is not in the public >> > domain and the Kepler Project keep its copyright." >> > Which is the cause for all of my questions. >> >> That's not a part of the license - just an explanation. There is, >> however, a copyright notice which is the legal equivalent of that >> sentence. >> >> The MIT license is usually combined with a copyright notice. One of >> the requirements that the MIT license imposes is in fact that this >> copyright notice is preserved. The same is true for BSD, GPL, and >> pretty much any other commonly used free software license. >> >> - yuri >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Kepler-Project mailing list >> Kepler-Project@lists.luaforge.net >> http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kepler-project >> http://www.keplerproject.org/ >>
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