Re: prozilla: Nonfree
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:13:50PM +0000, Henning Makholm wrote:
> Scripsit Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
>
> > Package: prozilla
> > Version: 1:1.3.6-11
> > Severity: normal
>
> > ftpparse.c heading:
> > Commercial use is fine, if you let me know what programs
> > you're using this in.
>
> > Which I believes fails the desert-island test? Legal, can you
> > confirm?
>
> Yes, if this is indeed a licence term. As quoted here it could also be
> a non-legal notice that the author considers commercial use without
> notification to be "not fine (from a personal moral standpoint) but
> not necessarily an infringement of my copyright either".
>
> Could we have some more context, please?
That is the entiretly of the file heading which pertains to
copyright/license:
/* ftpparse.c, ftpparse.h: library for parsing FTP LIST responses
D. J. Bernstein, djb@pobox.com
19970712 (doc updated 19970810)
Commercial use is fine, if you let me know what programs you're
using this in.
Its probably ripped from another program.
Justin
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