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Re: is the Clearthought Software License free?



On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:23 PM, jochen georges <gnugeo@gnugeo.de> wrote:
> hello debian-legal team,
>
> i wrote a small java-app which i want to make a deian package from.
> the code, that i wrote is under gpl, but i used the "TableLayout"-library
> which has the following licence
> (see:https://tablelayout.dev.java.net/files/documents/3495/59349/License.txt)
> /*
>  * ====================================================================
>  *
>  * The Clearthought Software License, Version 1.0
>  *
>  * Copyright (c) 2001 Daniel Barbalace.  All rights reserved.
>  *
>  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
>  * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
>  * are met:
>  *
>  * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
>  *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
>  *
>  * 2. The original software may not be altered.  However, the classes
>  *    provided may be subclasses as long as the subclasses are not
>  *    packaged in the info.clearthought package or any subpackage of
>  *    info.clearthought.

"The original software may not be altered" - it's non-free, unfortunately :(


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