Re: DFSG vs Pine's legal notices: where exactly is the gotcha?

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:

> I think I was being reminded of the MIT/X11 license instead:
> 
>         Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
>         copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
>         "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
>         without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
>         distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
>         permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
>         the following conditions:
> 
> Well, Thomas?  How about this one?  Is being able to "deal" in the work
> "without restriction" and "without limitation" sufficient to allow
> people to distribute modified copies?

My suggestion is that you ask the FSF for their more detailed advice.