Re: [ng-spice-devel] License issues
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm sure you're all as bored with this license issue as I am.
>
> Anyway, I have caught up with my reading and was wondering if
> Manu Rouat sent his email to Prof. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli at
> Berkeley and whether he received an answer. If we could get
> get the spice license changed to the GPL compatible version
> of the BSD license our troubles would be over.
This is exactly our reasoning, but to answer your question: no, I haven't
sent the email in question. I'm currently extremely busy with many
things (among other designing impossible circuits :-) and I'm afraid
I don't have enough time to spend on ngspice.
>
> >From my research it seems thet the problem with the original
> BSD license and the GPL is that the license only allows use of
> the software for "educational, research and non-profit purposes"
> and thereby does not allow commercial use. This extra restriction
> would make it incompatible with the GPL.
I recall that there was another restriction that caused problems. It
seems that the spice licence isn't quite the vanilla BSD license, it
has some extra restrictions on it.
>
> I have written to Richard Stallman with a copy of the spice license
> seeking clarificartion.
Good initiative, I hope he'll answer soon.
manu
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