On Monday, 15 July 2013 at 23:10, Tom Callaway wrote: > On 07/15/2013 04:56 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm considering packaging reduce from here: > > http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/software/reduce.php > > > > However, the licence seems to be non-free, despite saying > > "This is free software": > > http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/software/index.php > > [...] > > // NOTICE: This is free software and the source code is freely > > // available. You are free to redistribute or modify under the > > // conditions that (1) this notice is not removed or modified > > // in any way and (2) any modified versions of the program are > > // also available for free. > > // ** Absolutely no Warranty ** > > > > Am I correct? > > That is a poorly worded license. You might email them and ask them to > clarify the meaning of clause (2). I still think I'd want them to reword > it or drop it though. If they mean "free" as in "not for sale", it is > non-free. If they mean "free" as in "under the same license terms", > maybe... although I could still read that as potentially non-free. I'm > not sure what they're trying to prevent in clause (2). Thanks, Tom. That's what I thought as well. I sent them an e-mail asking to relicense under MIT or BSD if possible or at least clarify the text. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
