[Fedora-legal-list] CeCILL licence

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Thu Oct 9 19:59:49 UTC 2008


>>>>> "DM" == Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at greysector.net> writes:

DM> Hi. SciLab has changed its licence to CeCILLv2[1], which claims to
DM> be GPLv2+ compatible. I tried reading it and it gave me a
DM> headache. It seems to contain a few dubious passages[2]. Could RH
DM> Legal have a look at it and decide if it's OK to include code
DM> licensed under it in Fedora?

Well, CeCILLv2 is already on the license list as acceptable.

DM> Ideally, I'd like to have an answer for all four licences listed
DM> on this page, but CeCILLv2 would suffice for now.

There are three CeCILL licenses listed currently; which one is
missing?

 - J<




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