Here are some comments on this license. Ben Finney <[email protected]> writes:
> ## Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to use and distribute ## > ## this data and its documentation without restriction, including ## > ## without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, ## > ## distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of this work, and to ## > ## permit persons to whom this work is furnished to do so, subject to ## > ## the following conditions: ## All the DFSG-required permissions are granted. Good so far. > ## 1. The data must retain the above copyright notice, this list of ## > ## conditions and the following disclaimer. ## Effectively the same as other requirements in many free software works. No problem. > ## 2. Any modifications must be clearly marked as such. ## This kind of requirement is conventionally interpreted to be satisfied by the inclusion of a detailed changelog file. No problem. > ## 3. The author names and institution are retained. ## This will be done automatically by clause 1 and the changelog, so I don't see the point of repeating it. No problem, though. > ## 4. Neither the authors nor the institution are used to endorse or ## > ## promote products derived from this data without specific prior ## > ## written permission. ## Another common restriction conventionally regarded as acceptable for free software works. No problem. > ## 5. Any commercial, public or published work that uses this data ## > ## must contain a clearly visible acknowledgment as to the ## > ## provenance of the data. ## I don't really know what this means. It clearly places a restriction on a field of endeavour (“commercial, public or published work”), but I don't know whether it violates DFSG §6. Other opinions required. > ## CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY AND THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS WORK ## > ## DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS DATA OR SOFTWARE, ## […] Warranty disclaimers are conventionally regarded as unproblematic for DFSG. Francis Tyers <[email protected]> writes: > I think this is a DFSG-free licence. The only reservation I have is the one above, about the license's clause 5. > Any other thoughts ? Thank you for your attention to detail in checking the freedom granted in this work. -- \ “You can be a victor without having victims.” —Harriet Woods | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
