Re: nasm license: is this DFSG free?

Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Requiring notification for modification makes it non-free IMHO. But > I'm not sure where this falls under the DFSG. I agree - unfortunately, it isn't obvious that it fails the DFSG, so we have software in main which does this (e.g. vim). -- James

Re: nasm license: is this DFSG free?

On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 05:07:53PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 16:44:52 +0100, Juan Cespedes wrote: > > Here's a copy of the license. Any comments will be greatly > > appreciated; the author is willing to change it if it doesn't meet our > > needs. > > The nasm

result of IBM Jikes conference call

IBM staff and I discussed the Jikes license in a conference call on December 10. I brought up all of the problem areas that I found and that people on the net communicated to me, even those that would not effect whether or not Jikes complies with the Open Source(TM) Definition. They said that some