Hi, This is the third time I bring here this software's license. It is changed again, due to my and this list's concerns about the last license it used. (A brief summary) IBPP is a library that is intented to be included in other programs sources, i.e. to be used as part of other projects, not to be linked with other programs. I deal with it as my effort to bring FlameRobin in Debian. FlameRobin is a GUI tool for managing Firebird databases. Firebird is part of Debian/main (still). FlameRobin's license is going to be changed from Initial Developer Public License (IDPL, an MPL clone) to the Expat license. IBPP used IDPL too, then they invented IBPP license 1.0, which was also non-free and now they have a new license (copied below) that is an Expat clone. Since (as said in this list) writing a license is not easy and is prone to errors, I ask for your comments about this modified Expat license. The author (Olivier Mascia) told me he already contacted some -legal subscribers off-list, but I need an "official" (quotes put intentionally) opinion about the freeness of the used license. The original text can be found at http://www.ibpp.org/license =========================================================== © Copyright 2000-2006 T.I.P. Group S.A. and the IBPP Team (www.ibpp.org) Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization (”You”) obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files covered by this license (the “Software”) to use the Software as part of another work; to modify it for that purpose; to publish or distribute it, modified or not, for that same purpose; to permit persons to whom the other work using the Software is furnished to do so; subject to the following conditions: the above copyright notice and this complete and unmodified permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software; You will not misrepresent modified versions of the Software as being the original. The Software is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. In no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use of other dealings in the Software. =========================================================== Thank you very much for your time and for helping re-licensing a piece of useful software under DFSG-free license. dam -- Damyan Ivanov Creditreform Bulgaria divanov@creditreform.bg http://www.creditreform.bg/ phone: +359(2)928-2611, 929-3993 fax: +359(2)920-0994 mob. +359(88)856-6067 dam@jabber.minus273.org/Gaim
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