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Re: Question on License



On Thursday 22 April 2004 05:56 pm, José Luis Tallón wrote:
> The License reproduced hereunder comes from "AlterMIME". It seems quite 
> similar to a modified BSD license, but there are some points which make me 
> suspect it could be non-free... can somebody please check it and offer some 
> advice?
> I will forward this issue to Debian-legal in some days time if we cannot 
> get sure enough of its (non-)freeness.

I would've recommended starting there, actually.  They get this kind of
question all the time.

This is the only term that may not meet DFSG, I'm pretty sure:

>     (a) Redistributions are made at no charge beyond the reasonable cost of
>         materials and delivery.

HTH,
Terry

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Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com )
Anansi Spaceworks  http://www.anansispaceworks.com



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