[Trn-announce] Trn's license (fwd)
Recently, the author of trn announced that he was relicensing trn under
the BSD license, and released trn-4.0-test73 under those terms. As a
result, I intended to upload trn4 to main once (and assuming) I got
through new-maintainer. However, he has now said that he will not be
able to do this right away, but has changed the license again to a
somewhat looser version of the previous one (which you can see in the
existing Debian package of trn-3.6). Most of the cruft has been removed,
and the sentence beginning "Software bundlers ..." has been added.
Does this new license comply with the DFSG? It doesn't *explicitly*
allow derived works, but nor does it prohibit them; I'm rather inclined
to think this is covered under "otherwise use". I also think that it
gets by section 1, where it previously failed due to the restriction on
charging a fee for reproduction. Am I mistaken?
----- Forwarded message from Wayne Davison <wayne@clari.net> -----
From: Wayne Davison <wayne@clari.net>
To: trn-announce@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 15:04:40 -0700
Subject: [Trn-announce] Trn's license
Message-Id: <200005282204.PAA19124@house.clari.net>
List-Id: Announcements concerning trn <trn-announce.lists.sourceforge.net>
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I unfortunately jumped the gun on re-licensing trn under the BSD
license. Though I would like to see this eventually happen, I now
believe that I will have to excise all the rrn code out of trn in
order to be able to do that. If some folks would like to work
toward that, we can discuss it on trn-workers.
In the meantime, please either update the trn source from cvs or (if
you're not using cvs), remove the current LICENSE file and run this
email through "patch -p0". The license is slightly different from
test72 (in that it now attempts to be nicer to the folks who make
software distributions).
Comments are welcomed. (Side note: Yes, I have contacted
sourceforge.net to make sure that this license will not hinder
trn from being hosted on their site. I hope to hear back from
them soon.)
Index: LICENSE
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+This software is Copyright (C) 1991-2000 by Wayne Davison.
+Portions Copyright (C) by Clifford A. Adams, Stan Barber, Larry Wall,
+and others. All rights reserved.
+
+Permission is hereby granted to copy, reproduce, redistribute or
+otherwise use this software as long as: there is no monetary profit
+gained specifically from the use or reproduction of this software, it
+is not sold, rented, traded or otherwise marketed, and this copyright
+notice is included prominently in any copy made. Software bundlers
+who include trn among other diverse applications are exempt from this
+restriction, as long as the distribution includes trn's source code
+(including this license).
+
+The authors make no claims as to the fitness or correctness of this
+software for any use whatsoever, and it is provided as is. Any use of
+this software is at the user's own risk.
..wayne..
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Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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