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--Mkouklis12:23, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is the license an FS-license according the FSF? And is it compatible to the GNU GPL? --MichaelSchoenitzer (talk)18:59, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think I may be confused. I can't see anything in the text about academic institutions; the closest I can find is the use of the word "Educational" in the title. Does anyone have a source for the first sentence of the article?

Secondly, what qualifies as an "academic institution"? Presumably schools and universities count. Do private schools and universities count? How about employee training companies? Do public government research departments count? Other government agencies? Do they count if the civil servants in the department are involved in education? How about the research departments of companies? Presumably private individuals are permitted to use software with this license; is a private individual allow to use it when doing research that might lead to a commercial invention? When doing research for a book they intend to publish?

I still don't understand how this license differs from, say, theGPL 3 (edit -- this comment applies to version one only). Who would choose to use it, and why? What are its disadvantages/grounds for criticism? Sorry to be so confused.

HLHJ (talk)17:55, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Since there is now a version two of the license, is it still relevant to have the version one fulltext in the body of the article? Putting both full texts in would make the article ridiculously long. Would it be better to just use links to the fulltexts?

HLHJ (talk)18:09, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This article was marked as needing review from an expert in the area since June 2008. My day job is Copyright Specialist at the University of Michigan and I deal with software licensing issues frequently. I updated this article with more information and references and believe it to be accurate (thus removing that box). Addtionally, I reworded the license compatibility part in hopes that it was more plain language (thus removing that box as well).Greg G (talk)01:14, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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