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MontyLingua license



I am interested in MontyLingua, a wonderful natural language(well,
English only) processing toolkit, which can use common sense library.

Project homepage
http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/montylingua/

Now I am puzzled by its license:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/montylingua/doc/License.txt

Quote:
"If it is your intent to use this software for non-commercial,
non-prioprietary[sic] purposes, such as for academic research purposes,
this software is free and is covered under the GNU GPL License,
given here: <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt> and in the
APPENDIX of this document.

If you are interested in this software for commercial purposes,
commercial licensing information is available.  Please email
(hugo@media.mit.edu) for more information."

The rest of the document is request for acknowledgement and various
components of MontyLingua governed by other licenses, all of which
seems to be free.

Since it is certainly licensed under GNU GPL, is it okay to go into
Debian main? What could "This is covered under GPL, but only for
non-commercial use" mean at all?

Seo Sanghyeon



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