Bug#532456: Are these licenses DFSG?

Giacomo A. Catenazzi cate at debian.org
Wed Sep 30 07:21:16 UTC 2009


Florian Weimer wrote:
> * MJ Ray:
> 
>> cate wrote:
>>> Eugen Dedu wrote:
>>>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532456, about licenses
>>> I think there is a problem in terminology. AFAIK (but IANAL), the
>>> "any use" doesn't include distribution of software.
>>> For this reason I think it is safe to classify it as non distributable,
>>>
>>> It seems that the author intention was to interpret the "any use" in
>>> a wider manner, but this is not legally safe for us.
>> I'd agree with that unless someone can tell me why not.
> 
> Surprise, surprise---it does include distribution:

ok, good! So IMHO (IANAL) the license is free according DFSG.

Unfortunately this statement was not in the original bug report.

The other licenses in bug report seems OK, but also this time I read only
the bug report + responses: I've not looked in the sources

ciao
	cate





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