Re: Ready for wrap-up everyone?

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 05 April 2004 12:02 pm, Petr Mikulik wrote:
>
> > *) Distribute work on binary packages for PCs.
> >
> >    One important note: I don't think we can provide binaries with
> >    the pdf driver compiled in.  It's "non-commercial use only".

I'm not so sure.  I think we are OK to include it ourselves since
gnuplot source code is available, and since gnuplot itself is not
a commercial product.   A problem could arise, however, if 3rd
parties used a gnuplot binary for commercial development.
I will not venture an opinion on 3rd party use of a gnuplot for
commercial non-development work.

The only way to be certain is to ask them:

	License inquiries: sa...@pd...


Here are is the license description from the readme of pdflib
version 4.0.3

Licensing and Copyright
=======================
THIS IS NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN OR FREEWARE SOFTWARE!

PDFlib is available under two different licensing terms which are
substantially different, and meet the needs of different developer groups.
Please take the time to read the short summaries below in order to decide
which one applies to your development.


The Aladdin Free Public License
-------------------------------
This license applies to the main PDFlib package, but not to the
ActiveX, .NET, and EBCDIC editions or any of our precompiled
binary versions (all of these are only
available under the terms of the commercial PDFlib license). The
complete text of the license agreement can be found in the
file aladdin-license.pdf. In short and non-legal terms:

- You may develop free software with PDFlib, provided you make your source
  code available.
- You may develop software for your own use with PDFlib, as long as you
  don't sell it.
- You may redistribute PDFlib non-commercially.
- You may redistribute PDFlib on digital media if the complete contents of
  the media are freely redistributable.
  
Only the text in the file doc/aladdin-license.pdf is considered to completely
describe the licensing conditions. Project managers please note: Using PDFlib
in your commercial projects is not covered by the Aladdin license, and
effectively means jeopardizing your project through unlicensed software!

License inquiries: sa...@pd...

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