What license tag should I use for TestU01 package?

[Jiri Hladky]

>
> 2012/1/31 Jiri Hladky <hladky.jiri at googlemail.com>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm not sure what license tag I should for a license which restricts
> free
> > usage for non-commercial usage only:
> >
> > Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> > modification, are permitted without a fee for private, research,
> academic,
> > or other non-commercial purposes. Any use of this software by a
> commercial
> > enterprise requires a written licence from the copyright owner.
> >
> > http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~simardr/testu01/copyright.html
> >
> > Currently I have used:
> > License: Custom (Non-Commercial Use Only)
> >
> > Is this correct?
>
> Hi,
>
> Are you using Custom in an attempt to silent rpmlint ?
> Does that work ?
>
> Because I don't see "much" interest in having the Custom word in the
> License field.
> Once that said that's suggest to read the package license to get a
> complete idea of the rights and duties over the license.
>
> Nicolas (kwizart)



Hi  Nicolas,

Are you using Custom in an attempt to silent rpmlint ?
> Does that work ?
>

Yes, it does work, rpmlint is happy. I got this suggestion during the
package review. My first draft had License Tag:
"Redistributable, with restrictions"

The complete license text is at http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~simardr/testu01
/copyright.html
It's in fact pretty short. Here it's for you convenience:
===================================================================

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted without a fee for private, research, academic,
or other non-commercial purposes. Any use of this software by a commercial
enterprise requires a written licence from the copyright owner.

Any changes made to this package must be clearly identified as such.

In scientific publications which used this software, one may give the
citation as:
P. L'Ecuyer and R. Simard, *TestU01: A C Library for Empirical Testing of
Random Number Generators*, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol.
33, 4, article 22, 2007.

Redistributions of source code must retain this copyright notice and the
following disclaimer.

THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

===================================================================

The software is free (like a speech) for private, research, academic, or
other non-commercial purposes.

I have contacted author of the package, prof. P. L'Ecuyer, to clarify the
license status. He has stated that the university he works for would like
to retain a right to get license fees in case that software is used
commercially.


Could you please suggest a suitable license tag for this particular case?

Thanks a lot

Jirka
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