[Fedora-legal-list] mumps and metis licenses

Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Feb 7 16:54:46 UTC 2013


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On 02/07/2013 06:46 AM, Antonio wrote:

> In particular, I wish to point out:
> 
> - Mumps is released without any copyright or license rescriction
> but as 'public domain':
> http://mumps.enseeiht.fr/index.php?page=credits

It is safe to treat Mumps as being in the Public Domain. OK for Fedora.

> - Metis seems "can be used for non-commercial projects without any 
> restrictions. For commercial-use, the essential restriction is for
> the vendors not to be reselling Metis". 
> https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/browser/ThirdParty/Metis/trunk/INSTALL.Metis
>
> 
http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/metis/faq?q=metis/metis/faq#distribute

This is non-free. Not acceptable for Fedora.

~tom

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