On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:21:54PM +0900, NOKUBI Takatsugu wrote:
> ChaSen is a Japanese morphological analysis sytem, and it supplys API
> as a library. libtext-chasen-perl is ChaSen binding for perl. 
> It is needed by Namazu for high-paformance processing Japanese text.
> 
> Copyright is the following:
> 
> Copyright(c) 1998, 1999 NOKUBI Takatsugu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Copyright(c) 1997 Nara Institute of Science and Technorogy.
> All Rights Reserved.
> 
> Use, reproduction, and distribution of this software is permitted.
> Any copy of this software, whether in its original form or modified,
> must include both the above copyright notice and the following
> paragraphs.
> 
> Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST),
> the copyright holders, disclaims all warranties with regard to this
> software, including all implied warranties of merchantability and
> fitness, in no event shall NAIST be liable for
> any special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages
> whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an
> action of contract, negligence or other tortuous action, arising out
> of or in connection with the use or performance of this software.
> 
> The Japanese morphological dictionary included in this system
> originates from ICOT Free Software.  The following conditions for ICOT
> Free Software applies to the morphological dictionary of the system.

Is this different? Is this license anywhere to be found?
 
> Each User may also freely distribute the Program, whether in its
> original form or modified, to any third party or parties, PROVIDED
> that the provisions of Section 3 ("NO WARRANTY") will ALWAYS appear
> on, or be attached to, the Program, which is distributed substantially
> in the same form as set out herein and that such intended
> distribution, if actually made, will neither violate or otherwise
> contravene any of the laws and regulations of the countries having
> jurisdiction over the User or the intended distribution itself.

^^^
Looks like a form of the law requirement Debian's been unhappy about
before. I hate to say it's non-free on such an innocuous clause, 
but such is how it goes.

> NO WARRANTY
> 
> The program was produced on an experimental basis in the course of the
> research and development conducted during the project and is provided
> to users as so produced on an experimental basis.  Accordingly, the
> program is provided without any warranty whatsoever, whether express,
> implied, statutory or otherwise.  The term "warranty" used herein
> includes, but is not limited to, any warranty of the quality,
> performance, merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose of
> the program and the nonexistence of any infringement or violation of
> any right of any third party.
> 
> Each user of the program will agree and understand, and be deemed to
> have agreed and understood, that there is no warranty whatsoever for
> the program and, accordingly, the entire risk arising from or
> otherwise connected with the program is assumed by the user.

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