Bounty Castle license and GNU GPL compatibility ?

[Alexandre Dulaunoy]

	Ok (I respond myself ;-). If I'm correctly understand, the 
free-of-charge is only for the initial distribution but after you are free  
to add cost of handling. So this seems compatible with the GNU 
General Public License. 

	Thanks. 


On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Alexandre Dulaunoy wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> I'm checking if the Bounty Castle license 
> (http://www.bouncycastle.org/license.html) is compatible with the GNU 
> General Public License :
> 
> Copyright (c) 2000 The Legion Of The Bouncy Castle 
> (http://www.bouncycastle.org)
> 
> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a 
> copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), 
> to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation 
> the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, 
> and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the 
> Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
> 
> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in 
> all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
> 
> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR 
> IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL 
> THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER 
> LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING 
> FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER 
> DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. 
> 
> 
> This seems compatible except maybe the free of charge as the GNU General 
> Public Licenses can require a fee for the cost of the handling. 
> 
> What is your opinion about that ? 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> adulau
> 
> 
> 
> 

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