Re: License advice
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 11:36:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> adrian.bridgett@poboxes.com (Adrian Bridgett) wrote on 23.04.98 in <[🔎] 19980423190024.57114@wyvern>:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 09:53:54AM +0200, jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl wrote:
> > > As far as I can tell this license is DFSG-free; please let me know if you
> > > disagree.
> > >
> > >
> > > Copyright (c) 1997-1998 by Armin Biere.
> > >
> > > Author: Armin Biere.
> > >
> > > Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any
> > > purpose on any computer system, and to redistribute it freely,
> > ^^^^^^
> > Hmmm - which version of free is this - ethically or financially?
>
> It's quite obviously "without restrictions". As the part of the sentence
> you cut out makes clear.
It's quite obviously with restrictions, but you have been to eager with
cutting:
Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any
purpose on any computer system, and to redistribute it freely,
subject to the following restrictions:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
However, it is not as obvious as you want to make us believe. Things that
are not explicitely allowed are forbidden. Things that are not spelled out,
are not there at all. There is only little room for interpretation of legal
texts.
Marcus
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