Re: Geant4 Software License, version 1.0

2006-07-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* MJ Ray: Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would be interested to hear your opinions on the Geant4 Software License, version 1.0 [1]. [...] [1] http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/license/LICENSE.html I think it is clearly GPL-incompatible (as you noted) for reasons similar to the old

Re: Geant4 Software License, version 1.0

2006-07-06 Thread MJ Ray
Joe Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] How exactly does automatic upstream licence violate the DFSG? This is how I think it *might* (as written previously, I'm unsure): 1. what is meant by entering into a separate written license agreement? 2. is it the same licence if it's the original+total donation

Re: Geant4 Software License, version 1.0

2006-07-06 Thread MJ Ray
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] * MJ Ray: of clauses 4 (automatic donation to upstream), [...] You retain your exploitation rights, you only grant upstream a free license. This is just a form of copyleft, only that the source license is granted to upstream, not the party that receives the

Re: Geant4 Software License, version 1.0

2006-07-05 Thread MJ Ray
Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would be interested to hear your opinions on the Geant4 Software License, version 1.0 [1]. [...] [1] http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/license/LICENSE.html I think it is clearly GPL-incompatible (as you noted) for reasons similar to the old BSD licence

Re: Geant4 Software License, version 1.0

2006-07-05 Thread Joe Smith
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would be interested to hear your opinions on the Geant4 Software License, version 1.0 [1]. [...] [1] http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/license/LICENSE.html I think it is clearly GPL

Re: Geant4 Software License, version 1.0

2006-07-05 Thread Michael Poole
Joe Smith writes: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would be interested to hear your opinions on the Geant4 Software License, version 1.0 [1]. [...] [1] http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/license/LICENSE.html I think

Geant4 Software License, version 1.0

2006-07-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi debian-legal, I would be interested to hear your opinions on the Geant4 Software License, version 1.0 [1]. Until a few days ago Geant4 did not actually have a license, making it technically undistributable; the new license applies to the just-released Geant4 version 8.1 (and presumably