Software licensing

From: Tony Linde <ael-at-star.le.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:10:36 -0000


For information, the license that I am looking into for IVOA projects use is the Common Public License:
  http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl.php

I have a question about point *18* which I've directed to the authors (IBM):

'Does this mean that a commercial company who makes use of a portion or all of our code and wishes to sell that modified code, must make the source code of their amendments available?'

Basically I wanted to make sure any code produced is freely available with no constraint on its use except to keep copyright notices in the code.

I'll update this list when I get a response.

Cheers,
Tony.

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http://www.astrogrid.org http://www.e-science.le.ac.uk/ Received on 2004-01-29Z09:09:56