FOR APPROVAL: The license of Multics
Matthew Flaschen
matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Wed Nov 14 19:31:42 UTC 2007
Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting John Cowan (cowan at ccil.org):
>
>> As you all can see, the license is a permissive one, although it has
>> a long invariant text that has to be carried in the documentation.
>> It's closely related to the 3-clause BSD, and in my opinion is clearly
>> Open Source, though probably not compatible with the GPLv3.
>
> I concur. It's quite clearly so.
Do you mean it's incompatible with GPLv3, or just OSD-compliant? If you
think it's incompatible, why is that? I think it's pushing it, but can
still claim to be an "author attribution".
Matt Flaschen
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