RE: Licensing question
On 19-Feb-99 Remco van de Meent wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Would this license (the one that comes with MajorCool, a webinterface to the
> Majordomo package) fit in non-free? I think so, right?
Actually sounds ok to me.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> THE "NO-FRILLS" LICENSING AGREEMENT
>
> 1. This software is copyright the author and NCR Corp.
> 2. Maintain all copyrights and attributions.
> 3. NCR and all other contributors make no claims or guarantees
> about this software.
> 4. Non-commercial use of this software is freely encouraged.
> 5. For commercial use of this software, you may charge for the
> installation and/or management, but not for the software
> itself. Usage in a commercial service must display the
> copyright prominently.
GPL says you may charge for media, not the software, this is similar.
> 6. Let the author know if you plan to distribute as part of a
> CD-ROM or other collection.
> 7. Feel free to modify, hack, and improve. Keep the author
> informed of changes and fixes that others would find useful.
You can edit the code
> 8. In the case where modifications are not communicated back to
> the author, these modified instances of MajorCool must be
> clearly marked as derivative works so as not to be confused
> with the "true" version.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
This is like the artistic license perl uses, and the whole license in general
is similar.
Permission to redistribute is needed though, do not see him being against this.
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