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Licensing practice
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Javier Fernandez Baldomero |
Subject: |
Licensing practice |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:27:02 +0200 |
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Hi,
If I make a collection of .oct files to be used together with octave...
1.- What's the name for that? Package? Toolbox?
2.- What is compulsory to do?
I think I must include "This is a part of Octave". It is enough
that I include it in the main include file which is in turn included
by all the other .oct files? (they could be easily more than 150
files...) or should I include that text in every file?
I think I found the "standard" text somewhere, and for some of
the 150 files, the suggested text is bigger than the file itself, IIRC.
3.- I think I have read that the toolbox/package must be gnu-licensed.
So I should include a file with the gnu rules. Is that right?
Would it be valid if I simply copy the text file
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
and/or the web page
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
found linked in
http://www.octave.org/license.html
in the top directory of the package, or should I do something else?
4.- If the toolbox/package is to be used together with some other
software with more relaxed rules... are there any legal problems
with that?
I think there shouldn't be. For fixing concepts, let's imagine
the other involved software was LAM/MPI whose rules may be found in
http://www.lam-mpi.org/
http://www.lam-mpi.org/community/license.php
(it's just an example, any similar rule would serve to pose this
question)
Does anybody see any (licensing) problems in an (hypothetical)
octave package/toolbox using (say) LAM/MPI _and_ Octave, to be
(compulsorily) licensed under the GNU licensing scheme?
I hope the question is clear, because is it's not, I will not be
able to clarify it :-) (I always get lost when it comes to legal
concepts :-)
4.- Any other conditions?
Thanks in advance for your comments/warnings/advices/whatever
And thanks for taking the time to read this e-mail and the
(lengthy) rules, of course
-javier
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- Licensing practice,
Javier Fernandez Baldomero <=