On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:10:17 +0100 Julian Gilbey wrote: > Hi all! Hi! :) > > I'm looking at a package (GLFW, bindings to OpenGL from Haskell) which > has the following licence. I think that it is DFSG-free, but I'd like > someone else to check over it, as I've not seen a licence exactly like > this one before. The license you quoted (thanks for quoting its text in full) is word-by-word identical to the zlib license: http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_license.html There are already packages in main licensed under those exact terms: http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ See, for instance zlib itself: http://packages.qa.debian.org/z/zlib.html http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/z/zlib/current/copyright And indeed, software released under the terms of the zlib license complies with the DFSG. Finally, the FSF lists this license as "a free software license, and compatible with the GPL." http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses > > Many thanks! You're welcome. My usual (or useless) disclaimers: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/index.html#nanodocs The nano-document series is here! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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