> Trimaran (www.trimaran.org) is a compiler infrastructure for research, > and it looks quite interesting. > > It is clearly not DFSG-free, because the licence gives permission "for > academic, research and internal business purposes only". Also it is > GPL-incompatible, of course. However, in other respects it seems all > right: you can redistribute modified versions, there are no special > rights for the originator, and the licence cannot be arbitrarily > terminated. > > There are some silly things in the licence, but I don't think they are > real restrictions. For example, apparently you can't charge for the > media when redistributing copies, and any contributor "represents" > that their contribution "does not violate ... the laws of any other > jurisdiction" ... like most programmers have time to study Ruritanian > law. > > To download the software from www.trimaran.org you have to register > first, but I can't see anything that stops other people from > redistributing it anonymously. > > Would it be all right for non-free? > > Edmund
What an incredibly annoying license. It should be fine for non-free, but be careful when you're packaging it. You might violate a patent on hyper-linking or some such nonsense while making changes needed for packaging, in which case you couldn't distribute it. Regards, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
