Jason Bacon<outpaddling%yahoo.com@localhost> writes:
[crossposting pruned]
I think the license restrictions listed in Makefile are wrong:
https://support.hdfgroup.org/doc_resource/SZIP/Commercial_szip.html
I don't see anything to indicate that it cannot be redistributed in
binary form, only that certain types of commercial use are not allowed
without permission.
That's not how copyright works; failing to find a "restriction" does not
mean that copying is permitted. One needs an affirmative license to
copy. And binary packages are derived works, so one needs a license to
create and distribuute those.
The text only grants permission to "use", which is not a right reserved
to the copyright holder, so that should probably be construed as a
patent grant.
Any objections to changing it so we can generate binary packages?
I don't think we have a license to do so. You could write them and ask
them to clarify. I would expect that in this case, the copyright has a
fairly high likelihood of being will to grant the license we need for
source and binary redistribution.