On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 11:04:32AM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: > I'm preparing a package and would like to hear if this licence > (author's voice) is DSFG free. I intend to add this to > debian/copyright: > License: > The snow source code and the algorithms contained within it are free > for non-commercial use. Licences for commercial single-customer > applications will usually be granted free of charge, but contact the > author for confirmation. Certainly not; this is a clear use restriction. > Notes: > (*)As of 29 May 1999 the source code has changed from being public > domain to being free for non-commercial use. However, commercial users > are automatically granted a licence for any use of the snow code and > algorithms deployed before this date. > Also in what section would this software go: main, non-free? This seems to be the same question as the one you asked above? Perhaps you meant to ask first whether it's ok for Debian to distribute it. Anyway, I don't see anything in this license that constitutes permission to redistribute; given that the author apparently also doesn't know what "public domain" means, I certainly wouldn't rely on perceived implicit permission to redistribute the code when putting it into non-free. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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