Re: License evaluation sought

[ilmari@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)]

Tore Anderson <tore@linpro.no> writes:

>   Hi,
>
>   I would like to have the list members' opinion on the following
>  license, which is about to be applied to the data files of an old
>  adventure game:
[snip]
>   At first I had my doubts about paragraph 3, but after having read
>  the Artistic license, whose paragraph 5 involves the same restriction
>  while still being DFSG-free, I would assume this is acceptable for
>  inclusion in main.  But do comment, legalese is not one of my strong
>  points.

That's not the biggest problem with this license. It does not grant
permission to distribute modifications and derived works, so the it
fails DFSG clause 3.

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ilmari