Dear Andreas, Le 24. 06. 14 11:22, Andreas Herrmann a écrit : > The hdf5 library itself has a license that I would call free. It permits > redistribution in source, or binary form, with or without modification, > basically only requiring that the original copyright notice and license is > shipped along with it [1]. > Tables is licensed under a BSD license [2]. I think that one is generally > accepted as a free license. > Only szip has an unfree license, because it doesn't allow for commercial > use [3]. But whether you build hdf5 with or without szip doesn't change the > license of hdf5, or tables.
This makes me wonder what /free/ means. I don't consider it free either, but the Microsoft Research Licence Agreement [4], possibly amongst others, is included in lib.licenses and applies to verifast [5] and z3 [6], and it prohibits commercial use too. I agree that there are other differences between these licenses, but still, what does Nixpkgs/NixOS accept as free software ? Bonus question : Is http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-meta-license deprecated ? Tchüs, Louis [1]: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/Copyright.html [2]: http://www.pytables.org/moin/FAQ#WhatarePyTables.27licensingterms.3F [3]: http://www.hdfgroup.org/doc_resource/SZIP/Commercial_szip.html [4]: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/pex/msr-la.txt [5]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/science/logic/verifast/default.nix [6]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/science/logic/z3/default.nix -- I take no pride in bein' no powerless This world is mine and I won't make a mess _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
