Re: Copyright Question.
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Petra <Kevin J Poorman> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I want to package Blender. It will have to go into Non-free. or maybe
> contrib... What I want to know is yalls thoughts on weather or not we can
> even distribute this software. Heres the pertinant part of the licence.
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> Permission to use, copy, and distribute this software and its
> documentation without written agreement is hereby granted only for non-
> commercial purposes. Distributing blender 'bundled' in with ANY product
> is considered to be a `commercial purpose'. This entire copyright notice
> must appear in all copies of this software.
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> The part that worrys me is the line about ... Bundled in with any
> product. I'm wondering if this would mean packing for debian is comercial?
Please try to contact the authors about including it in the Debian
distribution. Apart from the "'bundled' in with ANY product", the rest of
the license ("only for non-commercial purposes" and not allowing
modification) would definitely make it go into non-free.
Remco
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