[Fedora-legal-list] CMSVLIB

[Orion Poplawski]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> 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.

Really, where?  The text of the license cannot be modified, but I don't 
see where the code cannot (other than to change it to read not data 
portions of the save file - is that the trouble?)

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