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Re: BSD license with Mozilla-style name clause



Le mercredi 07 janvier 2009 à 09:25 -0500, Luke Faraone a écrit :
> Hi, I'm interested in packaging Alice (RFP:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500648), but it's
> license <http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=license> has naming
> restrictions similar to Mozilla.
> 
> Would retitling the package "carol" or "wonderland" be sufficient to
> make the package DFSG-free?

Yes, it’s otherwise an old-style BSD license.

I think it would also be enough to obtain a permission from the authors
to call Debian modified versions "Alice", as long as renaming it is easy
otherwise. We have allowed such things in the past. 

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