Hello, I am looking into the license of the Xbae widget set, see http://xbae.sourceforge.net
One of my applications (twlog) uses this widget in a new version and before asking a RFP or packaging it myself, I want to make sure the license is okay. Here it is: ------------------------------------------------------------------- # # $Date: 1999/09/02 23:18:06 $ # $Id: COPYING,v 1.2 1999/09/02 23:18:06 danny Exp $ Copyright (c) 1991, 1992 Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore) Copyright (c) 1995-99 Andrew Lister All Rights Reserved. Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this material for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in all copies, and that the name of any author not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to this material without the specific, prior written permission of an authorized representative of Bellcore and current maintainer. BELLCORE AND OTHER CONTRIBUTORS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS AND EXTEND NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO THE INFORMATION, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND THE WARRANTY AGAINST INFRINGEMENT OF PATENTS OR OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", AND IN NO EVENT SHALL ANY AUTHOR OR ANY OF THEIR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS OR OTHER INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RELATING TO THE INFORMATION. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Xbae FAQ at http://xbae.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html explains this license as follows: - Nobody promises that this software works. - You can use this software for whatever you want. - You may not pretend that you wrote this software. - If you use it in a commercial program, you have to acknowledge that you've used the Xbae code in your documentation and include the copyright notice in the LICENSE file of the distribution being used. I am a bit worried about the line: 'that the name of any author not be used in advertising or publicity bla bla'. Debian won't explicitely advertise this widget I guess, so that would be okay? Do you think this license looks reasonable? Regards, Joop
