Bug#496659: Genicorp General Public Licence
Hey debian-legal,
I'm currently packaging libopenoffice-oodoc-perl and stumbled upon its
license:
> This software is free software. It is subject to the terms and
> conditions of both
>
> - the GNU Lesser General Public Licence, version 2.1, of the
> Free Software Foundation (http://www.fsf.org);
>
> - the Licence Publique Generale Genicorp, version 1.0 (see below,
> English translation by Graeme A. Hunter).
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> Genicorp General Public Licence (version 1.0)
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> The company GENICORP S.A., of 156 boulevard Haussmann, Paris, France
> ("GENICORP")
>
> offers a set of software components ("the software") for use free of
> charge, and which is designed to aid development of certain
> information handling applications, under the following conditions:
>
> I - The software provided is not a finished industrial product and
> cannot be accompanied by any kind of functional guarantee. It must
> only be considered a model or aid for the creation of other
> software. It is only designed to be used by experienced programmers
> who must be sure it is appropriate for the required use.
>
> GENICORP hopes this software will prove useful but does not
> guarantee that it will meet any of your needs and accepts no
> responsibility whatsoever for any direct or indirect consequences
> arising from its use.
>
> II - The software can be freely copied and passed to third parties
> on condition that they accept the terms of this user licence which
> should always accompany the software unchanged.
>
> III - The software can be freely modified. Modified versions can be
> distributed free or otherwise under the following conditions:
>
> - A comment at the top of each modified module must explicitly
> mention the name of the original module (name, date, version,
> GENICORP's name) as well as the details of the author of the
> modifications.
> - The original version and this user licence must be made
> available to the recipient of the modified version.
>
> IV - The software can be included in an application where the other
> components are either free or not, and this user licence remains
> applicable and should be given unchanged to recipients of the
> combined application.
>
A fellow from #debian-perl recommended I ask here to clarify things.
Thanks for your time.
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