It's unfortunate that this has stood for so long when my list mail was dropped.
Ron Chen <[email protected]> writes: > I talked to an independent source recently, who told me that Grid Engine is > not > "safe". (He said Grid Engine as a whole is not legally safe). Better close down OGS, then; or maybe just ignore the FUD. Obviously it's not "safe", even for users, in jurisdictions with iniquitous software patents. However, absent any evidence of a specific problem and actual legal advice, I wouldn't worry about that more than any other free software. > So this is 6 months later, has the copyright infringement been fixed yet? It's an absurd suggestion, but let me make it clear that there is no known copyright infringement in the distribution of Grid Engine from Liverpool University (and I'm not distributing it from anywhere else). It has been quite carefully checked, uncovering things that Sun seems to have missed, and it's distributed with source, including copyright notices. Obviously any real licence bugs reported will be fixed. The gridengine copyright infringement I know of is from the OGS binary distribution. Distributing GNU Make "under the free SISSL license" is the most obvious issue, but there are several other licences not honoured. Doubtless that won't be accepted as a bug report. -- Community Grid Engine: http://arc.liv.ac.uk/SGE/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
