[Fedora-legal-list] CMSVLIB

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu May 7 16:05:27 UTC 2009


On 05/07/2009 11:06 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> The tricky part is the code that reads and writes IDL save files.  IDL
> is proprietary software from (currently) ITT (previously Research
> Systems Inc).  There is a LICENSE.RSI file:
> 
> http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/down/LICENSE.RSI
> 
> That seems to grant permission to use it.

Yes, but it clearly does not grant permission to modify it. That code is
non-free.

~spot




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