gnu web site and JDOM license : Compatible with GNU GPL ?

Alexandre Dulaunoy alex at conostix.com
Fri May 17 13:55:36 UTC 2002


Dear All,

We have looked around the JDOM license. 
http://cvs.jdom.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/jdom/LICENSE.txt?rev=1.8&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

We are trying to finger out if the license is compatible or not with the 
GNU General Public License. 

The "promotion" clause is optional this is a good point. But regarding the 
point 3 and 4. This could be a restriction to a distribution (so to user 
freedom). 

Is there an "official" statement regarding the compatibility of JDOM 
license with the GNU General Public License ? 
(Maybe to add that on the gnu web site ?)

Thanks.

adulau

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