Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > I wish to get your opinions on the case of the reference > implementations in the SRFI's. An SRFI, Scheme Request For > Implementation, is the process by which the Scheme community agrees on > standard libraries and features for various scheme > implementations. Every SRFI contains a reference implementation, and > bears this copyright notice:
It's clearly non-free as a software license. You aren't allowed to distribute code changes, which could be actually a very desirable property of the license in the eyes of its authors, but still is non-free according to the DFSG. As a documentation license, it seems to be modeled after the ISOC copyright statement on RFCs. I don't think this qualifies as a free documentation license in the strictest sense (and IIRC, this was the majority opinion in previous discussions on debian-legal, but I could be mistaken).