Re: Equalis Octave group

[Judd Storrs]

The Equalis terms of service makes this pretty useless for us. In
particular they reserve the right to erect paywalls around your
contributions, hold you responsible for fraudlent use of your account
and have terms that are incompatible with their supposed mission:

"Not to modify, distribute, transmit, perform, broadcast, publish,
license, reverse engineer, transfer or sell, or create derivative
works from, any material, information, software, products or services
obtained from the Site"

and later:

"You retain ownership of the copyright in your User Submissions.
However, by submitting User Submissions to this Site, and unless we
indicate otherwise, you grant Equalis and its affiliates a
nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and fully
sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish,
translate, create derivative works from, distribute and display such
User Submissions throughout the world in any media now known or
hereafter invented."

which seems incompatible with the restrictions that guarantee free
software remains free (at least to me). In other words, Equalis is
demanding the right to strip any license from contributed code.


--judd