Re: ITP: keynote -- Decentralized Trust-Management system
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Martin Waitz wrote:
>
> only problem is the license, i first thought, it was BSD, as it
> is included in OpenBSD, but the license reads like:
>
>
> Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 by Angelos D. Keromytis.
>
> Permission to use, copy, and modify this software without fee
> is hereby granted, provided that this entire notice is included in
> all copies of any software which is or includes a copy or
> modification of this software.
>
> THIS SOFTWARE IS BEING PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
> IMPLIED WARRANTY. IN PARTICULAR, THE AUTHORS MAKES NO
> REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE
> MERCHANTABILITY OF THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR
> PURPOSE.
>
>
> i already contacted upstream author and asked if he can change
> license to something free, but haven't got any reply yet
So, what do you see wrong with this license? It looks like it is free to
me.
While it does not use the words "distribution", the statement "... this
entire notice is included in all copies of any software ..." make it clear
that "copies" are allowed, thus making distribution of modifications also
allowed.
Have I missed something?
Dwarf
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