Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?
Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 09:31, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:03:33PM +0000, Jim Marhaus wrote:
>> > "Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License"
>> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/02/msg00229.html
>>
>> Clause 4 of the license posted at the start of this thread is, with the
>> execption of whos names it protects, word-for-word identical.
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>
> Yes. Clause 3 is the GPL-incompatible non-free one. Clause 4 is standard
> boilerplate, found in many licenses (it's also superfluous, being
> written into copyright by default in US law).
The summary claims that clause 4 makes the license non-free. Since
clause 4 is identical to what's contained in the X11 license, it makes
it difficult to take the summary terribly seriously.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.legal@srcf.ucam.org
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