Re: Packaging xphoon

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

Remco Blaakmeer <remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl> writes:
> > > I've packaged xphoon and I'm going to upload it.
> > > Are there any objections?
> > > The copyright is BSD-like:
> > > 
> > >  Copyright (C) 1988, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer and Craig Leres.
> > > 
> > >  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
> > >  copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
> > >  documentation.  This software is provided "as is" without express or
> > >  implied warranty.
> > 
> > 	If that's all the copyright, then I think it's not DFSG free.
> > It fails #3 and #4 (it does not mention the right to modify it).
> 
> Read again. It says "Permission to (...) modify (...)".
> 
> But I think the "without fee" causes it to fail #1.

`without fee' in this context is generally taken to mean that no fee
is due, not that no fee can be charged.
-- 
Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu> <blp@gnu.org> <pfaffben@debian.org>


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