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

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

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