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Re: [ns] NS license
Most of the terms and conditions for use of NS are described in the
COPYRIGHTS text file on the root level of the source tree. Unfortunately,
due to the nature of the collaboration, the terms and conditions seem to be
on a per-source-file basis. There are ten different copyright notices with
slightly different restrictions in the COPYRIGHTS file. There are possibly
more that are simply inside individual source files.
At least one of the copyright notices only grant permission to
use/copy/modify/distribute for non-commercial purposes. Most of the
copyright notices seem to be BSD style licenses that permit any use or
modification so long as the original creators are credited properly.
The web page at http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/edu/index.html indicates that NS
is intended for use in education. I guess it doesn't indicate whether or
not that education must be not-for-profit.
I don't have any special information about it, though, and may have easily
overlooked something. Does anybody out there have a better answer? If I'm
wrong about any of this, I'd love to hear about it. I'm working on a (BSD
licensed, I guess) toy project with NS2 and would hate to think I've
misinterpreted anything.
Ben Donley
----- Original Message -----
From: "Valerie Malandain" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 6:53 AM
Subject: [ns] NS license
> Hello,
> I would like to know the terms and conditions under which NS must be
> used : is it for educational and research purposes, excluding commercial
> exploitation/marketing ?
> Especially, is it authorized to publish and market courses about how to
> use NS ?
> I visited the site, but saw no mention of copyright or software license.
> Thank you in advance for your help.
> Valerie Malandain.
> Legal department of INRIA (National Institute for Research in Computer
> Science and Control).
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