-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/08/11 04:19, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote:
> The incompatibility arises because NASA is legally > obligated to distribute their products with no > downstream restrictions on use, Actually no - the NASA license is incompatible with the GPL (at least) because: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html # The NASA Open Source Agreement, version 1.3, is not # a free software license because it includes a provision # requiring changes to be your “original creation”. Free # software development depends on combining code from # third parties, and the NASA license doesn't permit this. cheers, Chris - -- Christopher Samuel - Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.unimelb.edu.au/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5EozAACgkQO2KABBYQAh8ESQCfa3VfRt5Y1FxllDapHpqTrev9 +iAAn3TWi9YHq6yaAc6BMWCbeJZaQBFT =GL6d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
