On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Remco van de Meent wrote: > Hi, > > Would this license (the one that comes with MajorCool, a webinterface to the > Majordomo package) fit in non-free? I think so, right? > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > THE "NO-FRILLS" LICENSING AGREEMENT > > 1. This software is copyright the author and NCR Corp. > 2. Maintain all copyrights and attributions. > 3. NCR and all other contributors make no claims or guarantees > about this software. > 4. Non-commercial use of this software is freely encouraged. > 5. For commercial use of this software, you may charge for the > installation and/or management, but not for the software > itself. Usage in a commercial service must display the > copyright prominently. > 6. Let the author know if you plan to distribute as part of a > CD-ROM or other collection. > 7. Feel free to modify, hack, and improve. Keep the author > informed of changes and fixes that others would find useful. > 8. In the case where modifications are not communicated back to > the author, these modified instances of MajorCool must be > clearly marked as derivative works so as not to be confused > with the "true" version. > ---------------------------------------------------------------
All we need for non-free is permission to distribute. Unfortunately, he doesn't even give that. Points 4 and 5 suggest that he thinks 'use' means 'distribution'. Point 6 would appear to include an FTP site, and hence we'd need to tell him. However, point 7 suggests that he is actually in favour of modifications, so maybe he'd be amenable to considering a free license. (discussion cc:ed to debian-legal, the correct forum for these questions) Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
