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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