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Re: ilu-base: ILU's license has changed. It's free now.



Bill Janssen writes:
> I spent two years pushing Xerox legal to make the changes that Richard
> Stallman and the other GNU folks requested, then as soon as I
> accomplished that (and no sooner), they started raising this issue about
> this other clause.

I know nothing of what the "GNU folks" requested.  The license was posted
to debian-legal and we commented on it.  I had never seen the license
before.  I doubt Henning had either.

> I feel that if I work on this clause, who knows what you folks will
> object to next?

Nothing, in my case.  I can't speak for your "GNU folks".  Get rid of that
clause and your software could go into Debian, should anyone choose to
package it.

I would like to see a a legal opinion on that clause.  It is possible that
it has no effect at all.  If so, the license is already DFSG compliant.
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