Re: DFSG-compatibility of a overly short license [tensorflow dependency]
Andrej Shadura dijo [Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 08:24:42AM +0200]:
> >> > 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).
>
> I don’t think that’s the intention, and it is probably covered by
> "modify <…> for any purpose" (e.g. modify for the purpose of further
> redistribution).
In any case, it would make the license text ambiguous and
self-contradictory.
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