On 05/07/2009 12:21 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: >> On 05/07/2009 11:06 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote: >>> The tricky part is the code that reads and writes IDL save files. IDL >>> is proprietary software from (currently) ITT (previously Research >>> Systems Inc). There is a LICENSE.RSI file: >>> >>> http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/down/LICENSE.RSI >>> >>> That seems to grant permission to use it. >> >> Yes, but it clearly does not grant permission to modify it. That code is >> non-free. > > Really, where? The text of the license cannot be modified, but I don't > see where the code cannot (other than to change it to read not data > portions of the save file - is that the trouble?) It does not say that you cannot modify the code, but it never says that you _CAN_. Modification is not an automatically granted right under copyright, they have to explicitly grant it. ~spot _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
