Joris van der Hoeven <Joris.VanDerHoeven@math.u-psud.fr> writes:
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> What you can do though, is release Maxima under another,
> BSD-like license. The authorization letter seems to have
> a broad scope and DOE does not seem to care what precise
> license you take, as long as the export restriction is included.
But we don't have the original DOE version, we have a version with a
lot of changes. We don't have the ability to relicense the current
version.
> No, I think that the DOE letter states that the restrictions
> should be mentioned in the license itself:
>
> "... the previous paragraph should be included in the GPL and ..."
It looks like poor phrasing on the DOE's part more than anything else.
They seem to want the law made clear to the users and distributors of
Maxima, which COPYING1 does.
Jay