Re: Copyright question: GNUstep

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu>]

Gregor Hoffleit <flight@thefly.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de> writes:
>  * Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sublicense this software
>  * and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,

Most of the time this phrase is taken to mean `without fee due to
<software author>', not `you may not distribute if you charge a fee'.
For instance, the f2c license (/usr/doc/copyright/f2c) states:

[...]
    Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software
    and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^
    granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all
    copies and that both that the copyright notice and this
    permission notice and warranty disclaimer appear in supporting
    documentation, and that the names of AT&T Bell Laboratories or
    Bellcore or any of their entities not be used in advertising or
    publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without
    specific, written prior permission.
[...]

yet f2c is not a non-free package.
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