On 20 August 2018 at 08:24, Andrej Shadura <andre...@debian.org> wrote: > On 20 August 2018 at 03:24, Gunnar Wolf <gw...@debian.org> wrote: >> Lumin dijo [Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 01:07:54PM +0000]: >>> Hi debian-legal, >>> >>> The license for the last libtensorflow.so dependency is very confusing >>> because it looks quite incomplete, or exetremely overly simplified. >>> >>> > https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/third_party/fft2d/LICENSE >>> > >>> > Copyright(C) 1997,2001 Takuya OOURA (email: oo...@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp). >>> > You may use, copy, modify this code for any purpose and >>> > without fee. You may distribute this ORIGINAL package. >>> >>> Is this a free software license? Is it DFSG-compatible? >>> It doesn't tell me any detail and looks incomplete. >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >> >> Almost, I would say, but IMO most definitively not. >> >> It allows people to modify the code, but NOT distribute the >> modifications (there is emphasis in ORIGINAL). > > I don’t think that’s the intention, and it is probably covered by > "modify <…> for any purpose" (e.g. modify for the purpose of further > redistribution).
The homepage of the project says (www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ooura/fft.html): > You may use, copy, modify and distribute this code for any > purpose (include commercial use) and without fee. Please > refer to this package when you modify this code. In my opinion it is quite clear it is not disallowing redistributing modifications. -- Cheers, Andrej
