David Starner wrote: > At 11:15 PM 7/31/99 -0400, Mike Goldman wrote: > >PM3: Polytechnique Montreal Modula-3 > > >The only open question, which I have been discussing on debian-legal, is > >whether this package needs to go into non-free or whether it can go into > >main. The relevant part of the license which causes some concern is: > [chunk snipped] > >Presently, I'm inclined to release into main, unless anyone strongly > >objects. > > This has come up before. See > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-legal-9901/msg00002.html . In > summary, there are copyrights buried in the code that are "all rights > reserved", i.e. non-free to the max.
I looked up this thread, and disagree with your summary. The only "all rights reserved" disclaimer was in a file by Digital, which pointed the reader to the file COPYRIGHT for more information, which, in turn, is precisely the license which I have previously posted here and which has only the qualification noted. There doesn't appear to be any other relevant code which is covered under a more restrictive license than this. Though, it is interesting to see that someone else is/was packaging PM3 for Debian some months ago. I will drop him a note and see if he is seriously pursuing this, as I am literally almost ready to go.
