Karl Fogel scripsit: > Just in case anyone else noticed this: > > https://www.cra.com/commercial-solutions/probabilistic-modeling-services.asp > > They want to be open source, and almost are, but they're using a custom > license based on 3-clause BSD with an extra clause -- clause (4) -- > that IMHO is problematic. I've attached the license to this mail.
I don't think it is. Clauses 1 and 2 (as usual for BSD) require that the license itself be preserved by downstream distributors. That license already includes the pointer required by clause 4 -- in the text of clause 4 itself. So clause 4 is self-satisfying taken in conjunction with clauses 1 and 2. All good. /me snickers. > 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright > notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. > 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright > notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the > documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. > 3. Neither the name of Charles River Analytics nor the names of its > contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from > this software without specific prior written permission. > 4. Redistributions in any form must include a pointer to Charles River > Analytics' website (www.cra.com) and probabilistic modeling services. -- John Cowan co...@ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. --John Donne _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
