[Fedora-legal-list] The Wild Magic License

[Richard Fontana]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 01:01:38PM +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> Hi folks, 
> 
> Could someone please look at this license[1] and decide if it can be
> included in fedora? I found a thread here that says its
> gpl-incompatible, but I want to just make sure.

It is not a free software license, for at least the following reason:
clause 1(c) contains a restriction on commercial use that appears to
be nonfree based on the Sun RPC precedent[0].

In quick net search I found some information suggesting software under
this license may have later been licensed under LGPL, so you may want
to look into that.

- RF

[0]See http://spot.livejournal.com/315383.html





> 
> The j3d library makes use of this. I was in the middle of packaging it. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Ankur
> 
> [1]
> http://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/licenses/THIRDPARTY-LICENSE-DISTANCE.txt
> 
> 
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Richard E. Fontana
Red Hat, Inc.