Re: A little question of a license
I'm no legal genius, but it looks fairly benign. Basically it says, "as long as you give us credit for the code, you can do whatever you want with it". - Lawrence Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: Hi, I would like to ask if a software that contains a file with this: -- Copyright (C) 2005, XX All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. The names of its contributors may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. -- could be in main? (so is dfsg) I think that yes, but I must admit that the legal stuff is something unclear to me. Something as the classical licenses are clear, but this custom makes me crazy. Regards, Leo No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.8.1/1728 - Release Date: 10/16/2008 7:38 AM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A little question of a license THANKS
A Dijous 16 Octubre 2008, Ben Finney va escriure: > Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I think that yes, but I must admit that the legal stuff is something > > unclear to me. > > You've received correct responses (the license is effectively the same > as the 3-clause BSD license, minus warranty disclaimer). Yes, I have been surprised of how many answers I have had Thanks to all. > If you have future questions about the DFSG-freeness of a work, a > better forum to ask is the ‘debian-legal’ list. Of course, but I just would like to be sure of that. Regards, Leo -- -- Linux User 152692 PGP: 0xF944807E Catalonia signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: A little question of a license
Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think that yes, but I must admit that the legal stuff is something > unclear to me. You've received correct responses (the license is effectively the same as the 3-clause BSD license, minus warranty disclaimer). If you have future questions about the DFSG-freeness of a work, a better forum to ask is the ‘debian-legal’ list. -- \ “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too | `\ much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.” | _o__)—Thomas Jefferson | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A little question of a license
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:01:06PM +0200, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: > I would like to ask if a software that contains a file with this: > -- > Copyright (C) 2005, XX >All rights reserved. > > Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without >modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions >are met: > > 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright > notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. > > 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright > notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the > documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. > > 3. The names of its contributors may not be used to endorse or promote > products derived from this software without specific prior written > permission. > > -- > > could be in main? (so is dfsg) Yes, this is just the 3-clause BSD license. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A little question of a license
Hi, Sure, this license is just "Attribution" (and "Don't use our names to promote derivate products"), so there should be absolutely no problem with it. (Disclaimer: IANADD, IANAL, etc.) Regards, -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Ubuntu Developer. Debian Contributor. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A little question of a license
On Thursday 16 October 2008 16:01:06 Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: > [...] > > could be in main? (so is dfsg) > > I think that yes, but I must admit that the legal stuff is something > unclear to me. Something as the classical licenses are clear, but this > custom makes me crazy. This isn't custom - it is is the BSD 3-clause license. These license is considered as free. So it is possible that it can be included in main. You can compare it with sr/share/common-licenses/BSD Best regards, Sven signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: A little question of a license
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > could be in main? (so is dfsg) Yes. > I think that yes, but I must admit that the legal stuff is something unclear > to me. Something as the classical licenses are clear, but this custom makes > me crazy. It is just the 3-clause BSD license with references to the University of California and the warranty disclaimer removed. Compare it with /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
