Daniel Stone writes: > [3]: > /* > * Copyright 2003 by David H. Dawes. > * Copyright 2003 by X-Oz Technologies. > * All rights reserved. > * > * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a > * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), > * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation > * the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, > * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the > * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: > * > * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in > * all copies or substantial portions of the Software. > * > * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR > * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, > * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL > * THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER(S) OR AUTHOR(S) BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR > * OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, > * ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR > * OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. > * > * Except as contained in this notice, the name of the copyright holder(s) > * and author(s) shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote > * the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written > * authorization from the copyright holder(s) and author(s). > * > * Author: David Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > */
This has essentially the same requirements as the three-clause BSD license, and looks free. The difference is that the license above says "all copies or substantial portions of the Software" where three-clause BSD talks about "Redistributions of source code" and "Redistributions in binary form." However, the "X-Oz Technologies" license[1] has the same problematic advertising clause as the XFree86 License version 1.1[2]; perhaps the disagreement over Freeness is due to confusion about which "X-Oz Technologies" license applies? [1]- http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/pre-4.4/LICENSE6.html#27 [2]- http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/pre-4.4/LICENSE4.html#7 Michael Poole (Disclaimer: I am neither a lawyer nor Debian developer.)
