Le mer. 12 févr. 2025 à 22:43, Soren Stoutner <so...@debian.org> a écrit :
> On Wednesday, February 12, 2025 1:31:58 PM MST Jérémy Lal wrote: > > > Is this DFSG-free ? > > > > > > * Largely written by Julian Elischer (jul...@tfs.com) > > > * for TRW Financial Systems. > > > * > > > * TRW Financial Systems, in accordance with their agreement with > Carnegie > > > * Mellon University, makes this software available to CMU to distribute > > > * or use in any manner that they see fit as long as this message is kept > > > with > > > * the software. For this reason TFS also grants any other persons or > > > * organisations permission to use or modify this software. > > > * > > > * TFS supplies this software to be publicly redistributed > That part seems to imply that it is meant to be redistributed by anyone ? Anyway, that's too bad for it to be so badly worded. > * on the understanding that TFS is not responsible for the correct > > > * functioning of this software in any circumstances. > > > * > > > * Ported to run under 386BSD by Julian Elischer (jul...@tfs.com) Sept > 1992 > > The text of the license specifies that only CMU has the right to > distribute the software. Everyone else only has the rights to use or > modify it. > > My guess is this was just an oversight by the person drafting the license, > but given how it is written I think it wouldn’t be DFSG-free. > > -- > > Soren Stoutner > > so...@debian.org >
