This would be my take... based on an assumption that fvwm has a free license so the code taken from that is also free... On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 06:55:39PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, > EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES > OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND > NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR (O. FOURDAN) BE > LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN > ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN > CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE > SOFTWARE. disclaimers are allowed > > Some part of the code, especially the routines that deal with FVWM are > mostly taken from Rob NATION's code of FVWM; > So here comes his copyright notice : > > *************************************************************************** > * ... the concept for interfacing this module to the Window Manager, are * > * all original work by Robert Nation * > * * > * Copyright 1994, Robert Nation. No guarantees or warantees or anything * > * are provided or implied in any way whatsoever. Use this program at your * > * own risk. Permission to use this program for any purpose is given, * > * as long as the copyright is kept intact. * > *************************************************************************** The code comes from fvwm so it's free... > The icons provided with XFCE version 1.2.5 are from : > > Joerg Mertin <smurphy@stardust.bln.sub.org> > Better use: <joerg@pc50.zrz.tu-berlin.de> (faster) No explicit license on the logos so that'd make them non-free... > Some XPM functions are from DFM, (c) 1997 by Achim Kaiser I have no idea what DFM's copyright is but if they're GPL or BSD then it'd be free. > > Regarding XFCE, permissions to use, copy and distribute this software > without fee is hereby granted. You can modify this program for your own use as > long as you do not redistribute it, unless you clearly specify original name > (XFCE) and author (Olivier Fourdan, fourdan@csi.com) and keep original > copyright intact. All BSD code and origanal code is covered here. We have permission to modify and distribute. We allow the requirement to keep original copyrights intact. I think the current trend, however, is to reject the "without fee" clause as non-free. So one (logo license) possibly two ("without fee") strikes against Freeness -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <gecko@debian.org> <secretary@debian.org> <lintian-maint@debian.org> * * <webmaster@debian.org> <gecko@fortunet.com> <webmaster@spi-inc.org> * =========================================================================
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