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Re: ng-spice legal-license advice



On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 02:42:48PM +1100, Matt Flax wrote:
> This person says that license issues stop the inclusion of this package 
> with debian ... from the ng spice source ball I find the following 
> licenses - many licenses as it is the combination of decades of 
> different distrubutions and contributions to spice :
> File "COPYING"
> Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
> documentation for educational, research and non-profit purposes,
> without fee, and without a written agreement is hereby granted,
> 
> This is very free.

Er, no it's not.  It's permission to do these things only for educational,
research and non-profit purposes.  Debian requires these things be allowed
for any purpose.

-- 
Glenn Maynard



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