Xbae widget license
Hello,
I am looking into the license of the Xbae widget set, see
http://xbae.sourceforge.net
One of my applications (twlog) uses this widget in a new version and
before asking a RFP or packaging it myself, I want to make sure the
license is okay. Here it is:
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# $Date: 1999/09/02 23:18:06 $
# $Id: COPYING,v 1.2 1999/09/02 23:18:06 danny Exp $
Copyright (c) 1991, 1992 Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore)
Copyright (c) 1995-99 Andrew Lister
All Rights Reserved.
Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this material for any
purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
copyright notices and this permission notice appear in all copies, and
that the name of any author not be used in advertising or publicity
pertaining to this material without the specific, prior written
permission of an authorized representative of Bellcore and current
maintainer.
BELLCORE AND OTHER CONTRIBUTORS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS AND EXTEND NO
WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO THE INFORMATION,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND THE
WARRANTY AGAINST INFRINGEMENT OF PATENTS OR OTHER INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY RIGHTS. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", AND IN NO EVENT
SHALL ANY AUTHOR OR ANY OF THEIR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES,
INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS OR OTHER INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES RELATING TO THE INFORMATION.
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The Xbae FAQ at http://xbae.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html explains this
license as follows:
- Nobody promises that this software works.
- You can use this software for whatever you want.
- You may not pretend that you wrote this software.
- If you use it in a commercial program, you have to acknowledge that
you've used the Xbae code in your documentation and include the
copyright notice in the LICENSE file of the distribution being used.
I am a bit worried about the line: 'that the name of any author not be
used in advertising or publicity bla bla'. Debian won't explicitely
advertise this widget I guess, so that would be okay?
Do you think this license looks reasonable?
Regards,
Joop
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