Hi legal gurus, I'd like to know what others think about the SNNS licence [1], wrt the DFSG.
1. Main clause says: "You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of SNNS's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of SNNS a copy of this license along with SNNS." The "conspicuously and appropriately publish..." reminds me of the advertisement clause in original BSD - is it as bad, or not ? 2. The "You may not distribute modified copies of SNNS. You may, however, distribute your modifications as separate files (e.,g. patch files) along with the unmodified SNNS software." reminds me of the TeX licence. But here they talk about "SNNS", not "SNNS source code" as in other parts. That seems to imply that binaries built from modified SNNS cannot be redistributed. Is it just a wrong interpretation on my part ? [1] http://www-ra.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/SNNS/complete_license.html Regards, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support manager Responsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres Debian developer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Développeur Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
