Re: Proposed Grail and JPython Licenses
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 08:46:09AM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> A note on clause 4 (about OROmatcher, a regular expression package
> for Java), which only applies to JPython. I expect that this may be
> a show-stopper for Debian,
It is, for the main distribution. The only thing that matters for the
non-free distribution is that the software must be distributable over
FTP, however.
> Let me know if this license works for Debian, and if not, what
> problems it has.
Otherwise it looks OK to me. But the language is hard to read, at
least to a non-lawyer whose native language is not English, like me;
for example, it took several passes for me to even parse the first
clause.
Antti-Juhani
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