On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:39:56AM +0100, Daniel Kobras wrote:
> We're currently trying to sort out the non-free status of scsh within
> Debian. Most of the issues are unambiguous, however, I'd like to see
> some more opinions on the following two clauses contained in a couple of
> source files.
>
> scsh-0.6.4/scheme/big/sort.scm:
>
> ;;; 2. Users of this software agree to make their best efforts (a) to return
> ;;; to the T Project at Yale any improvements or extensions that they make,
> ;;; so that these may be included in future releases; and (b) to inform
> ;;; the T Project of noteworthy uses of this software.
Harmless. My best effort consists of waving a gerbil at my workstation
and hoping something along those lines happens. (If this were an
actual requirement, rather than a vague request, it would be a
problem. I strongly discourage people from writing noise like this
into licenses though - put it in the README where it belongs.)
> ;;; 3. All materials developed as a consequence of the use of this software
> ;;; shall duly acknowledge such use, in accordance with the usual standards
> ;;; of acknowledging credit in academic research.
This is close to some things that would be a problem, but with no real
constraints on what form acknowledgement must take, harmless ("usual
standards of acknowledging credit in academic research" is a readable
citation that is sufficient to find the origin, for anybody who cares
enough to do so).
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