Re: [Openexr-devel] CTL Licence

[Hai Nguyen]

Hi,

I'm a bit curious to this too....so here is the top portion of the license:

Copyright © 2007 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 
(A.M.P.A.S.). Portions contributed by others as indicated. All rights 
reserved.

A worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive right to distribute, copy, 
modify, create derivatives, and use, in source and binary forms, is 
hereby granted, subject to acceptance of this license. Performance of 
any of the aforementioned acts indicates acceptance to be bound by the 
following terms and conditions:

   * Redistributions of source code, in whole or in part, must retain
     the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the
     Disclaimer of Warranty.
   * Redistributions in binary form must retain the above copyright
     notice, this list of conditions and the Disclaimer of Warranty in
     the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
     distribution.
   * Nothing in this license shall be deemed to grant any rights to
     trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets or any other
     intellectual property of A.M.P.A.S. or any contributors, except as
     expressly stated herein. Neither the name "A.M.P.A.S." nor the
     name of any other contributors to this software may be used to
     endorse or promote products derivative of or based on this
     software without express prior written permission of A.M.P.A.S. or
     the contributors, as appropriate.
   * This license shall be construed pursuant to the laws of the State
     of California, and any disputes related thereto shall be subject
     to the jurisdiction of the courts therein.


Which clause in the license are you referring to that makes it 
incompatible?

Thanks,
Hai

Cyrille Berger wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 December 2007, you wrote:
>   
> > What do you mean by "incompatible"?
> >     
> I mean GPL project can't be linked with ctl and therefore can't use the ctl 
> library.
>
>