On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 09:54 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 15:08 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have the following licenses in lesstif. What is the associated short > > license name: > > > > * Copyright 1994 Robert Nation. No restrictions are placed on this > > * code, > > * as long as the copyright notice is preserved. No guarantees or > > * warrantees of any sort whatsoever are given or implied or anything. > > > > > > > > * Copyright 1993, Robert Nation > > * You may use this code for any purpose, as long as the original > > * copyright remains in the source code and all documentation > > Is that the only license for Lesstif? > > Strictly speaking, this isn't a license. This is copyright assignment > with no restrictions. Of cause this a license! A very liberal one! It says: This is free SW, you may do whatever you like with it, but you may not take away my copyright (Claiming copyright is a prerequisite to being able to license something). > I haven't added it to the table yet, because so far, nothing has been > wholly under this "license". It's not worth listing until we hit a case > where this is the only "license" for a package. Such kind of libre licenses are very common in the non-GNU world. Often to be found in individual files inside of bigger packages which come with a different license acting as umbrella. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
