Electricite de France distributes one of its numerical simulation softwares (Code_Aster) as free software

[Frederic Couchet]

Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de> writes:

> The second and third remark might be problematic and even render it
> uncompatible with the GPL.
> 
> > Oh, btw, the sources aren't available at the present time and EDF
> > promised to provide them on december 15.
> 
> We applaude their aim to release their product as Free Software.
> 
> However we should insist that they do not call a modified GNU GPL
> the real thing and we have to wait for the code.

We are in contact with EDF about this issue. I hope we'll solve the
problem.

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