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Re: A short licence check



On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:58:11PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 02:51:39PM +0200, Igor Stroh wrote:
> > could someone check this licence[1]? I believe it's somewhat BSD-like,
> > but I'm not quite sure. It's the licence of python-gtk2-tutorial. Since
> > there's no description of what kind of licence this actually is, I'm afraid
> > the ftp-masters won't like it...
> 
> This is a GPL-incompatible, copyleft, DFSG-free license. In other
> respects it is a MIT clone, not a BSD one; this is essentially a
> copyleft MIT license.

Oh, and as a general note: DON'T WRITE LICENSES LIKE THIS, YOU BASTARDS.

Use the GPL if you want copyleft. Carving out small incompatible areas
of free software is not productive.

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