Re: Does this conform to DFSG?

To: Jonathan Chang <changcs@santos.ee.ntu.edu.tw>
Cc: debian-legal@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Does this conform to DFSG?
From: Peter Makholm <peter@makholm.net>
Date: 08 Apr 2001 09:27:54 +0200
Message-id: <877l0vlukl.fsf@xyzzy.adsl.dk>
In-reply-to: <20010408134433.A9094@santos.ee.ntu.edu.tw> (Jonathan Chang's message of "Sun, 8 Apr 2001 13:44:33 +0800")
References: <20010408134433.A9094@santos.ee.ntu.edu.tw>

Jonathan Chang <changcs@santos.ee.ntu.edu.tw> writes:

> 1. Does this license conform to DFSG?

Yes, it is Free according to DFSG.

> 2. Could we mix codes licensed by "Vovida Software License" with other
>    codes (especially GPL, BSD, etc)?

Clause 3 and 4 imposes restrictions on the software not found in the
GPL, which makes GPL incompatible with this license. BSD licenses has
no such problems.

/Peter

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