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Miles Bader wrote:
KHMan <keinhong@gmail.com> writes:
The correct way would be to do what the lcc people do:
http://drh.svnrepository.com/svn/lcc/tags/v4_2/CPYRIGHT

p.s., Why is the lcc approach more "correct"?  The package in question
_has_ a COPYING file (with a less obnoxious license than lcc).

It is in context of how the "commercialization intent" is handled. Let us disregard for a moment that I agree open licenses is the most beneficial to all in the case of such libraries.

Now, if the *intent* is to control access to commercial usage, then lcc has got it right. It is meant to allow broad usage in academia, while controlling commercial usage. And the license made that crystal clear, and it has always been so.

That's clarity of thought there.

But, to respond to your other posting, yes, I sounded harsh, but let me explain. One, the website is up to date and seems well maintained. Two, see this part of the package's page:

    "This software is provided for research use only.
    Incorporating this software in any commercial product
    requires a license agreement. This software is not warranted
    by the authors, the University of California or the Lawrence
    Berkeley National Laboratory."

"This software is not warranted" seems to be expressed as the BSD license. But yet, they say, "for research use only". This is very much like the intent of lcc, which may be called "for academic use". And they reinforce this with the second sentence, which implies that they want explicit one-to-one license agreements for commercial usage.

So, I stand by the impressions I got. The *intent* of the authors is important. I read in this case that the intent is "for research use only". For whatever reason, I think the BSD license in the package is not telling the whole story. Of course, it would be nice to get it clarified, but the feeling I have is that it may be part of a trend in US labs and academia to monetize or control IP rights, especially patent rights.

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia