On 20 August 2018 at 03:24, Gunnar Wolf <gw...@debian.org> wrote: > Lumin dijo [Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 01:07:54PM +0000]: >> Hi debian-legal, >> >> The license for the last libtensorflow.so dependency is very confusing >> because it looks quite incomplete, or exetremely overly simplified. >> >> > https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/third_party/fft2d/LICENSE >> > >> > Copyright(C) 1997,2001 Takuya OOURA (email: oo...@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp). >> > You may use, copy, modify this code for any purpose and >> > without fee. You may distribute this ORIGINAL package. >> >> Is this a free software license? Is it DFSG-compatible? >> It doesn't tell me any detail and looks incomplete. >> >> Thanks in advance. > > Almost, I would say, but IMO most definitively not. > > It allows people to modify the code, but NOT distribute the > modifications (there is emphasis in ORIGINAL).
I don’t think that’s the intention, and it is probably covered by "modify <…> for any purpose" (e.g. modify for the purpose of further redistribution). -- Cheers, Andrej
