Re: SRFI copyright license
Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> I wish to get your opinions on the case of the reference
> implementations in the SRFI's. An SRFI, Scheme Request For
> Implementation, is the process by which the Scheme community agrees on
> standard libraries and features for various scheme
> implementations. Every SRFI contains a reference implementation, and
> bears this copyright notice:
It's clearly non-free as a software license. You aren't allowed to
distribute code changes, which could be actually a very desirable
property of the license in the eyes of its authors, but still is
non-free according to the DFSG.
As a documentation license, it seems to be modeled after the ISOC
copyright statement on RFCs. I don't think this qualifies as a free
documentation license in the strictest sense (and IIRC, this was the
majority opinion in previous discussions on debian-legal, but I could be
mistaken).
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