ng-spice licensing


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From Paolo Nenzi <pnenzi@iol.it>
Date Wed, 4 Aug 1999 23:10:46 +0200 (CEST)
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I have read the GPL license under which GNU Readline is distributed (you
were right Manu). 

Some comment on GPL:

  8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in
 certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the
 original copyright holder who places the Program under this License
 may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding
 those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among
 countries not thus excluded.  In such case, this License incorporates
 the limitation as if written in the body of this License.

GPL is not in conflict with export regulation of spice3 (if the export
control still exists).


   10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
 programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author
 to ask for permission.  For software which is copyrighted by the Free
 Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes
 make exceptions for this.  Our decision will be guided by the two goals
 of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and
 of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.

...and this is the clause that can save us.

What do you think Manu ?

Paolo


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