Le mer. 12 févr. 2025 à 22:43, Soren Stoutner <
[email protected]> a écrit :
On Wednesday, February 12, 2025 1:31:58 PM MST Jérémy Lal wrote:
Is this DFSG-free ?
* Largely written by Julian Elischer ([email protected])
* 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 ([email protected]) 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
[email protected]
<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mer. 12 févr. 2025 à 22:43, Soren Stoutner <<a href="mailto:
[email protected]">
[email protected]</a>> a écrit :<br></
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div><p style="margin:0px">On Wednesday, February 12, 2025 1:31:58 PM MST Jérémy Lal wrote:</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> Is this DFSG-free ?</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin:0px">> * Largely written by Julian Elischer (<a href="mailto:
[email protected]" target="_blank">
[email protected]</a>)</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> * for TRW Financial Systems.</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> *</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> * TRW Financial Systems, in accordance with their agreement with Carnegie</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> * Mellon University, makes this software available to CMU to distribute</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> * or use in any manner that they see fit as long as this message is kept</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> with</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> * the software. For this reason TFS also grants any other persons or</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> * organisations permission to use or modify this software.</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> *</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> * TFS supplies this software to be publicly redistributed</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That part seems to imply that it is meant to be redistributed by anyone ?</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, that's too bad
for it to be so badly worded.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
<p style="margin:0px">> * on the understanding that TFS is not responsible for the correct</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> * functioning of this software in any circumstances.</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> *</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> * Ported to run under 386BSD by Julian Elischer (<a href="mailto:
[email protected]" target="_blank">
[email protected]</a>) Sept 1992</p>
<br><p style="margin:0px">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.</p>
<br><p style="margin:0px">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.</p>
<br><p style="margin:0px">-- </p>
<p style="margin:0px">Soren Stoutner</p>
<p style="margin:0px"><a href="mailto:
[email protected]" target="_blank">
[email protected]</a></p>
</div>
</blockquote></div></div>
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