Release of NeXus API version 1.2.1

Dave Love d.love at dl.ac.uk
Thu Nov 11 18:08:06 GMT 1999


>>>>> "Ray" == Ray Osborn <ROsborn at anl.gov> writes:

 Ray> While this maintains the freedom of use of the NeXus API
 Ray> available under the GNU General Public License, it allows
 Ray> commercial developers to incorporate the code into any software
 Ray> that is subsequently sold for profit.

Excuse a quibble: The GPL doesn't restrict commercial use as such; in
fact licences which do so mean it's not free software.  It prevents
(in this case) the library being used in non-free software, whether
for profit or not, e.g. no-cost binary-only distributions.

[The `free' refers to freedom, not cost.
<URL:http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/> has discussion and propaganda.]

Thanks for considering the tedious but important licensing issues and
producing free software!

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