hfd5 license [ HDF5 !!!]

[Ed Hill]

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 16:44 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> I'm looking to package the NCSA HDF5 library and am wondering what to 
> put in the License line.  I've attached the license.  It looks pretty 
> open, but it isn't using a standard license.  There is an NCSA license 
> listed on the OSI page, but it's not exactly the same as this.

Hi Orion,

Yes, please package HDF5.  I'll be glad to review it.

Its license is very similar to a BSD-with-advertise-clause.  I suspect
that it will have no problems passing a Fedora-legal review.

Ed

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