Trimaran licence
Trimaran (www.trimaran.org) is a compiler infrastructure for research,
and it looks quite interesting.
It is clearly not DFSG-free, because the licence gives permission "for
academic, research and internal business purposes only". Also it is
GPL-incompatible, of course. However, in other respects it seems all
right: you can redistribute modified versions, there are no special
rights for the originator, and the licence cannot be arbitrarily
terminated.
There are some silly things in the licence, but I don't think they are
real restrictions. For example, apparently you can't charge for the
media when redistributing copies, and any contributor "represents"
that their contribution "does not violate ... the laws of any other
jurisdiction" ... like most programmers have time to study Ruritanian
law.
To download the software from www.trimaran.org you have to register
first, but I can't see anything that stops other people from
redistributing it anonymously.
Would it be all right for non-free?
Edmund
http://www.trimaran.org/license.html:
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