Re: it's free license?
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
<mohsen@pahlevanzadeh.org> wrote:
> Dear Mentors,
>
> I want to know the following license is free or not:
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> Copyright © 2002-2010 Nikolaus Gebhardt
>
> This software is provided ‘as-is’, without any express or implied
> warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
> arising from the use of this software.
>
> Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
> including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
> freely, subject to the following restrictions:
>
> 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must
> not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this
> software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product
> documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
> 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must
> not be misrepresented as being the original software.
> 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source
> distribution.
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> I found it at http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/license/
>
> Yours,
> Mohsen
Yes, it is DFSG-free. It's a verbatim copy of the zlib license [1],
which is considered a free license in Debian.
Regards,
Vincent (who happens to be one of irrlicht's maintainers)
[1] http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_license.html
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