> On Oct 15, 2014, at 10:26 PM, Scott Brozell <sbrozell.rci.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 03:51:41PM -0400, David A Case wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014, Ross Walker wrote:
>>>
>>> Huh? - IANAL but seems to me that since we don't distribute any binaries
>>> and we require the user to build their own copy of AMBER that by doing so
>>> - that is manually running ./configure themselves and then typing make
>>> they are themselves manually linking to FFTW3 and we are not doing
>>> anything 'automatic' for them so this is probably not an issue.
>>>
>>> Comments?
>>
>> I don't think you are a lawyer. And I don't think "automatic" vs.
>> "manual" is really important here. But I'd urge people to read paragraph
>> 4 of the GPLv3 license (in $AMBERHOME/AmberTools/LICENSE; this also
>> applies to fftw). All we are doing with fftw3 is distributing verbatim
>> source code, which is explicitly allowed. We never distribute non-source
>> code (covered by paragraph 6), so basically I think we are fine: remember
>> that the GPL rights are based on copyright. In this regard, GPLv3 is much
>> more explicit about what can and should not be done than is GPLv2.
>
> Wink, wink, nod, nod.
>
> ---
> tail $AMBERHOME/AmberTools/LICENSE
>
> The GNU General Public License does not permit incorporating your program
> into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you
> may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with
> the library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
> Public License instead of this License. But first, please read
> <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html>.
> ---
>
> And note that we are put into this position of saying
> "ohh, we didn't know that users would actually (illegally)
> link the fftw3 (that we legally distributed) with our proprietary programs"
> by lawyers:
> http://fftw.org/faq/section1.html#nonfree
>
> scott
>
>
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