From: guido Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 10:52:45 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Revert to QPL X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ba026a541e280bb94c4625eed89b881a75f11720;p=dealii-svn.git Revert to QPL git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@5129 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- diff --git a/deal.II/doc/license.html b/deal.II/doc/license.html index 3f80b116b5..cde603869d 100644 --- a/deal.II/doc/license.html +++ b/deal.II/doc/license.html @@ -23,16 +23,10 @@

- deal.II is distributed under the license below. - It is based on the Q Public License (or "QPL"), which qualifies as - an Open - Source license. It differs in two points in section Granted - Rights, defining non-commercial use. The - deal.II license is more restrictive in the sense - that even generation of data by applications based on - deal.II for commercial purposes requires a - commercial license. - It is appropriate for people wishing to write + deal.II is distributed under the Q Public License + (or "QPL"), which qualifies as an Open Source + license. It is thus appropriate for people wishing to write software under the Open Source model where all source code to the software is made available to all users and can be freely modified @@ -43,18 +37,37 @@

- The deal.II Public License prohibits development - of proprietary software and generation of proprietary data. If you - intend to develop commercial software based on - deal.II or plan to generate data for commercial - use by programs based on deal.II, we are willing - to negotiate a suitable agreement. Feel free to contact us in this - case. + The QPL prohibits development of proprietary software. If you intend + to develop commercial software based on deal.II, + we are willing to negotiate a suitable agreement. Feel free to + contact us in this case.

+ For more information on the QPL, please see also the following + links: +
+     +     + Annotated version +     + Plain text version +     + Announcement +     + Comments +

+ + +

+ In addition to the terms imposed by the QPL, we have one restriction + on the use of the library: