Is the INRIA license non-free?
Hi there,
Currently any program covered by the INRIA license(see below)
is classified into non-free, but I guess it's DFSG-free.
How do you think?
Regards,
MH
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Masayuki Hatta
The University of Tokyo
mhatta@debian.or.jp / mhatta@gnu.org
g920202@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp / masayuki-h@geocities.co.jp
-- INRIA License
LEGAL NOTICE
Software: The MMM browser, version 0.41 of December 1997,
hereinafter referred to as "the software".
The software has been designed and produced by Francois Rouaix
and Jun Furuse, research workers for the Institut National de Recherche en
Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) - Domaine de Voluceau - Rocquencourt
- 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex - France.
INRIA holds all ownership rights to MMM.
MMM uses various other freely available software:
Objective Caml:
This software includes the Objective Caml run-time system,
which is copyright 1996, 1997 INRIA.
Tcl/Tk
Copyright The Regents of the University of California,
Sun Microsystems, Inc., and other parties
Preamble:
The software is currently being developed and INRIA desires
that it be used by the scientific community so as to test, evaluate
and develop it. To this end, INRIA has decided to have a prototype of
the software distributed on the Internet.
a- Extent of the rights granted by the INRIA to the user of the software:
INRIA freely grants the right to use, modify and integrate the
software in another software, provided that all derivative works are
distributed under the conditions described in point b- below.
b- Reproduction of the software:
INRIA grants any user of the software the right to reproduce it so as
to circulate it in accordance with the same purposes and conditions as
those defined at point a- above. Any copy of the software and/or relevant
documentation must comprise reference to the ownership of INRIA and
the present file.
The user undertakes to distribute the software either as unmodified
source files, identical to those originally made public by INRIA, or as
executable binaries obtained by compiling the original source files.
Distribution of derivative works obtained by modifying the software or
integrating it in another software is allowed only if the distribution
consists of the unmodified, original source files for the software,
along with difference files (patches) to be applied by the user of the
derivative work.
As regards any other type of distribution, the user undertakes to
apply to obtain the express approval of INRIA.
c- Guarantees:
Please note that the software is a product currently being developed.
INRIA shall not be responsible in any way concerning conformity, and in
particular shall not be liable should the software not comply with the
requirements of the user, INRIA not being obliged to repair any
possible direct or indirect damage.
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