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Re: DFSG-compatibility of a overly short license [tensorflow dependency]



Lumin dijo [Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 01:07:54PM +0000]:
> Hi debian-legal,
> 
> The license for the last libtensorflow.so dependency is very confusing
> because it looks quite incomplete, or exetremely overly simplified.
> 
> > https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/third_party/fft2d/LICENSE
> > 
> > Copyright(C) 1997,2001 Takuya OOURA (email: ooura@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp).
> > You may use, copy, modify this code for any purpose and
> > without fee. You may distribute this ORIGINAL package.
> 
> Is this a free software license? Is it DFSG-compatible?
> It doesn't tell me any detail and looks incomplete.
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Almost, I would say, but IMO most definitively not.

It allows people to modify the code, but NOT distribute the
modifications (there is emphasis in ORIGINAL).


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