Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?
Daniel Stone <daniels@debian.org> wrote:
> However, on the release call today, it was alleged that the code was
> actually DFSG-free, and that the so-called 'X-Oz licence' bore no legal
> problems whatsoever, and would be fine to go into main, or whatever[2].
I'm a little confused here. There's an X-Oz licence that is almost
identical to the XFree 1.1 license, and then there's what you've quoted
at the bottom of this mail. This:
> * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
> * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"=
> ),
> * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
> * the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
> * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
> * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
> *=20
> * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included =
> in
> * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
> *=20
> * 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 COPYRIGHT HOLDER(S) OR AUTHOR(S) 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.
> *=20
> * Except as contained in this notice, the name of the copyright holder(s)
> * and author(s) shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote
> * the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written
> * authorization from the copyright holder(s) and author(s).
> *=20
> * Author: David Dawes <dawes@XFree86.Org>.
all seems harmless. If all the files in question have this text and
there's no reason to believe that they've been doctored to do so, then I
can't see any problems.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.legal@srcf.ucam.org
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