Software licensing

[Tony Linde]

Forgot this link to CPL FAQs:
  http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-cplfaq.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-stdproc at eso.org [mailto:owner-stdproc at eso.org] On 
> Behalf Of Tony Linde
> Sent: 29 January 2004 09:11
> To: stdproc at ivoa.net
> Subject: Software licensing
> 
> 
> 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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