On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:29:21PM +0100, Giuliano Procida wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:44:52PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > what do you think about this license : > [snip] > > The author frequents linux-kernel. I would ask politely for an updated > licence that makes clear what (if any) modification is allowed, > preferably one that is DFSG compliant and ideally one that makes no > reference to advertising materials. I cannot remember if he is > BSD-friendly and GNU-critical or vice-versa, sorry.
Hello, ... i wrote to the author and he changed : * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted * provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are to : * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the above copyright notice * and this paragraph are That would take care of the first problem, what about the advertising material stuff, i guess it is not compliant with 7 of the DFSG, altough even there, it should be ok, this is only a nuissance, isn't it ? Friendly, Sven LUTHER
