Bug#107496: ITP: libgtkscintilla, python-gtkscintilla, moleskine

[Gregor Hoffleit <gregor@mediasupervision.de>]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:42:59PM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> Moleskine is an editor for the gnome desktop, written in python and
>   using the PyGtkScintilla widget
>   
> license is GPL for the three. my main concern is with the license of
> scintilla itself:
> 
> Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its 
> documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, 
>                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that 
> both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in 
> supporting documentation. 

I was told that this is commonly parsed as "(permission for any purpose)
and (permission without fee)", i.e. you don't have to pay a fee to get
the permission to "use, copy, modify, and distribute" the software.

'zgrep "without fee" /usr/share/doc/copyright*' brings up a lot of other
licenses that use a similar wording. It's really common.

    Gregor