Re: License query: olex test files

[Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Richard Braakman wrote:

> The olex package contains this license for text files:

> 
> LICENSE.TEXT
> 
>    This file describes the license on any text file in this distribution,
>    hereafter called the TEXT. This license does specifically not apply to
>    any file in this distribution which might end in .h or .cc, nor does
>    it apply to the LICENSE file which is a copy of the GPL and carries
>    a copyright and copying clause on its own.
> 
>    You are free to make hard copies of this file but you may not charge
>    any money for the hard copy.

[snip]

> 
> I think the second paragraph makes it non-DFSG-free.  

I agree.

Jules

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