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

[Richard Fontana]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:38:02 -0400
John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

> Karl Fogel scripsit:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I don't think it is.  Clauses 1 and 2 (as usual for BSD) require that
> the license itself be preserved by downstream distributors.  That
> license already includes the pointer required by clause 4 -- in the
> text of clause 4 itself.  So clause 4 is self-satisfying taken in
> conjunction with clauses 1 and 2.

Ah, but what does it mean to have a pointer to probabilistic modeling
services? :)