Seo Sanghyeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now I am puzzled by its license: > http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/montylingua/doc/License.txt
> Quote: > "If it is your intent to use this software for non-commercial, > non-prioprietary[sic] purposes, such as for academic research purposes, > this software is free and is covered under the GNU GPL License, > given here: <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt> and in the > APPENDIX of this document. > If you are interested in this software for commercial purposes, > commercial licensing information is available. Please email > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for more information." > The rest of the document is request for acknowledgement and various > components of MontyLingua governed by other licenses, all of which > seems to be free. > Since it is certainly licensed under GNU GPL, is it okay to go into > Debian main? What could "This is covered under GPL, but only for > non-commercial use" mean at all? I've seen that sort of license before. While it may be worthwhile checking with the authors just to be sure, whenever I've seen this license before the authors have just been confused about the difference between commercial and closed-source. The intent has always been to say "this software is distributed under the GPL; if you want to use it for some purpose with which the GPL is not compatible, we're happy to charge you money for an alternative license." If that is indeed what is intended here as well, that would be fine for Debian main, as it isn't any different than any other GPL-covered software from Debian's perspective. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
