[License-discuss] Started discussion with Figaro re their license.

[Karl Fogel]

Just in case anyone else noticed this:

  https://www.cra.com/commercial-solutions/probabilistic-modeling-services.asp

They want to be open source, and almost are, but they're using a custom
license based on 3-clause BSD with an extra clause -- clause (4) -- that
IMHO is problematic.  I've attached the license to this mail.

(You get to their download by filling in a registration form, which is
annoying of course and not normal for most open source projects, but is
not in itself contradictory to the OSD in any way.)

I already contacted them about their license by using their web form.
Hopefully they'll understand the issue and switch to plain BSD.  These
discussions always take at least a few days, so let's see what happens.

Best,
-Karl

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