On 12/11/13 10:43, Graham Inggs wrote: > The previous maintainer of dxsamples felt that the license of some of > the examples added in more recent versions made it unsuitable for > distribution in Debian.
I don't see a license problem with what you quoted. It would be nice if the copyright holder had used a more common form of the MIT-style license (the Expat license is the closest thing there is to a canonical MIT/X11 license, and is the one in the OSI license list), but it appears to be DFSG-compliant and GPL-compatible. The maintainer will have to copy this license into debian/copyright in order to satisfy both Debian policy and the "... in supporting documentation ..." clause. > * (C) Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. 2002 > * > * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its > * documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, > * provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that > * both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in > * supporting documentation, and that the name of VIS not be > * used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the > * software without specific prior written permission. This is the first paragraph of what https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT calls "Old Style with legal disclaimer", with s/M.I.T./VIS/ and the last sentence (mini-warranty-disclaimer) removed. Seems fine to me. > * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, > * EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY > * WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. This disclaimer of warranty looks fine to me, and is similar to the one recommended for use with the GPL. > * VIS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING > * ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR > * PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL VIS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT > * OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS > * OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE > * OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE > * OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. This is back to what https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT calls "Old Style with legal disclaimer". Also looks fine to me. S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5282109c.2090...@debian.org