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Re: Why is BISS-AWT in non-free ?



On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 06:10:56PM +0100, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> What was the reason BISS-AWT is in non-free ? They have released the new  
> version (no that's not the new AWT from Transvirtual but the old version  
> written for BISS) for JDK 1.1.

Let me try a wild guess.
 
> I include the license below.
> 
> BISS AWT International License Agreement
> 
> 1. LICENSE GRANT
> 1.1 BISS GmbH grants you ("Licensee") a non-transferable, non-exclusive,
> royalty-free, limited license to use a copy of the BISS AWT for Java
> Source and Binary Code ("Licensed Software"), including the right to
> distribute verbatim copies of the Licensed Software, provided that you
> publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of
> warranty and limitation of liability; also a copy of this copyright
> notice must be included and distributed with each copy of the Licensed
> Software.

> You may also modify and distribute portions of Licensed
> Software provided that you distribute the whole of the work to third
> parties under the terms of this license at no cost.
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^
This fails some point of the dfsg namely point #1.

thank you,
Marcus



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