Re: MTL license
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 01:33:59AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> Please comment on whether this license satisfies the DFSG. It looks to me
> like it does.
>
> http://www.osl.iu.edu/research/mtl/LICENSE.php3
License text (without commentary) follows. Note that the actual license
contains HTML formatting, and there is no plain text version linked from
the page, which is unfortunate.
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To protect MTL, the authors, the University of Notre Dame, and our
research sponsors, we release MTL under the terms of the license
agreement and disclaimer below. This license is based on the Artistic
License.
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Copyright ©1997-2004 , University of Notre Dame.
Authors: Andrew Lumsdaine, Jeremy G. Siek, Lie-Quan Lee.
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