bug1 wrote: > > I had further corespondence with the author of iozone, trying to get a > more defined explinationg of the license restrictions for his program, i > got the following response. > > > The following is the only license that Iozone contains: > > > > "License to freely use and distribute this software is hereby granted > > by the author, subject to the condition that this copyright notice remains > > intact. > > The author retains the exclusive right to publish derivative works based on > > this > > work, including, but not limited to, revised versions of this work." [snip] > > This sounds like its DFSG complient to me, if nobody disagrees ill go > ahead and make a package with the above quotation as the stated license.
"Only I am allowed to make derivative works" is DFSG-free to you? This is barely enough for non-free, and I'm not even sure about that. -- | Jeff Teunissen - Pres., Dusk To Dawn Computing - deek at dusknet.dhs.org | Disclaimer: I am my employer, so anything I say goes for me too. :) | Core developer, The QuakeForge Project http://www.quakeforge.net/ | Specializing in Debian GNU/Linux http://dusknet.dhs.org/~deek/
