Jeff Teunissen wrote: > > 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. > > --
hmmm, i see what you mean... i didnt take notice of "exclusive".. thats the damaging word isnt it. Sorry to waste your time Glenn McGrath
