New package -- copyrights problems.
Hi everybody,
I would like to package the noweb literate programming
system, but I thik its copyright doesn't permit it to reside in
main. Can some good lawyer give it a look?
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Noweb is copyright 1989-1997 by Norman Ramsey. All rights reserved.
Noweb is protected by copyright. It is not public-domain
software or shareware, and it is not protected by a ``copyleft''
agreement like the one used by the Free Software Foundation.
Noweb is available free for any use. You may redistribute noweb in
whole or in part provided you acknowledge its source and include this
COPYRIGHT file. You may modify noweb and create derived works,
provided you retain this copyright notice, but the result may not be
called noweb without my written consent.
You may sell noweb if you wish. For example, you may sell a CD-ROM
including noweb.
[I think the problem is the following paragraph. fog.]
You may not sell a derived work in which noweb is a significant part of
the value of the product. A literate-programming editor based on the
noweb source code is an example of this kind of product.
You may use noweb in products as long as you charge for only those
components that are entirely your own and you acknowledge the use of
noweb clearly in all product documentation and distribution media. You
must state clearly that your product uses or is based on noweb and
that noweb is available free of change. You must also request that
bug reports on your product be reported to you. Using noweb to build
any program not related to literate programming is an example of this
kind of product. So is building a literate-programming editor that
uses the noweb intermediate representation or calls the noweb tools.
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