Re: question on a licence

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Noel Koethe 

| $ less COPYRIGHT 
| /*
|  * Copyright University of Manitoba 1998.
|  * Written by J. Gary mills
|  *
|  * Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose on
|  * any computer system, and to alter it and redistribute it freely,
| subject
|  * to the following restrictions:
|  *
|  * 1. The author and the University of Manitoba are not responsible 
|  *    for the consequences of use of this software, no matter how awful, 
|  *    even if they arise from flaws in it.
|  *
|  * 2. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented, either by
|  *    explicit claim or by omission.  Since few users ever read sources,
|  *    credits must appear in the documentation.
|  *
|  * 3. Altered versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
|  *    misrepresented as being the original software.  Since few users
|  *    ever read sources, credits must appear in the documentation.
|  *
|  * 4. This notice may not be removed or altered.
|  */

I don't see any problems with this license, it says that you have to
say that if you modify the sources, you have to say where you got the
sources from - similar to the BSD license.  Also, they have a
no-warranty section, which is just fine.

So, I don't see what you might think that would be a problem with the
license.

| Sorry, if this is the wrong list. Please tell me the right one.

debian-legal, but -mentors isn't too bad either. :)

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Tollef Fog Heen
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