[Radiance-dev] Radiance license

[Gregory J. Ward]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the links.  If you think the current license is in some  
way inadequate, I suggest you write to Steve Selkowitz at LBNL  
directly, as I don't understand licenses or care about them much.   
The current license came from the patent office at LBNL, and I had  
nothing to do with it other than to stuff it into the distribution.   
I know the general purpose is to provide for the free use of the  
software for any purpose, and to protect LBNL and the UC Regents from  
any liability.

-Greg

> From: Tom M <letterrip at gmail.com>
> Date: October 29, 2005 1:15:40 PM PDT
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> thank you for your response,
>
> I contacted the Free Software Foundation and they stated that the
> license is GPL incompatible.
>
> However there is a more recent license (I think it is revision of the
> license you are using) used by many Lawrence Berkeley National
> Laboratory projects that is GPL compatible
>
> http://crd.lbl.gov/~xiaoye/SuperLU/License.txt
> http://www-didc.lbl.gov/NetLogger/license.html
> http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/projects/mpi-iba/LICENSE.TXT
> http://archive.nsf-middleware.org/NMIR4/grids-center/ 
> license_pyglobus.asp
>
> thanks for your time and thanks for the great piece of software.
>
> Tom M.