Re: [ccp4bb] The CCP4 license is ambiguous

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Subject: Re: The CCP4 license is ambiguous
From: Kjeldgaard Morten mok {- at -} BIOXRAY {- dot -} DK
Date: 2007-07-03

> The CCP4 license does explicitly allow you to redistribute library
> code
> Phil

That's not the way I read the license. There are two sections of the
license that are contradictory, 2.1 and 2.2. Both place restrictions
on your use of the software. According to 2.1 you can distribute CCP4
software to third parties, but according to 2.2 you can't. 2.3 limits
the license to academic use. None of this is compliant with the GPL,
and the inclusion of GPL as appendixes to the CCP4 license is
incomprehensible at best, but could be viewed as fraudulent.

-- Morten

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