On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:01:57PM +0200, Jörgen Hägg wrote: > Going thru the files I found more copyright notices, the files have different > copyrights (sorry for the wasted bandwith). > It seems as if the code has been modified/written both at Purdue and Ohio State. > > Can this be accepted as free (for Debian)? This is DFSG, but code under this license is not GPL-compatible (clause 2 is reminiscent of the BSD advertising clause). The code under the license you posted previously (Purdue's copyright) *is* GPL-compatible. Just FYI. GPL compatibility can be important. > Copyright (c) 1990 The Ohio State University. > All rights reserved. > > Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted > provided that: (1) source distributions retain this entire copyright > notice and comment, and (2) distributions including binaries display > the following acknowledgement: ``This product includes software > developed by The Ohio State University and its contributors'' > in the documentation or other materials provided with the distribution > and in all advertising materials mentioning features or use of this > software. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its > contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived > from this software without specific prior written permission. > THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR > IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED > WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. -- G. Branden Robinson | I suspect Linus wrote that in a Debian GNU/Linux | complicated way only to be able to have branden@debian.org | that comment in there. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Lars Wirzenius
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