Andreas Cadhalpun <[email protected]> writes: > The license distributed through git is the file COPYING (attached). > Not being a lawyer I don't feel competent to judge, whether this > license is DFSG-free or not, so I'm asking for your opinion.
Thank you for taking care with the freedoms of this work's recipients. > COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE I think this work is non-free and non-redistributable, unless some additional license applies. None of the freedoms required for the DFSG are granted to recipients, and there is not even any freedom to redistribute. > This material resulted from work developed under a United States Government > Contract and is subject to the following license: Doesn't specify exemptions from copyright law, so the default assumption must be “all rights reserved” i.e. entirely non-free and non-redistributable. > The Government retains a paid-up, nonexclusive, irrevocable worldwide > license to reproduce, prepare derivative works, perform publicly and > display publicly by or for the Government including the right to > distribute to other Government contractors. That's the end of the license; the only parties which receive any freedom from copyright restrictions are “The Government” and “other Government contractors”. Nothing in this license permits anyone else to do anything at all. > Disclaimer AND LIMITATION OF WARRANTY. No further freedoms are granted, and the restrictions are fairly routine for disclaimer sections. Summary: If this is the license under which the work is granted, the work is non-DFSG-free and not redistributable by Debian. -- \ “We should strive to do things in [Gandhi's] spirit… not to use | `\ violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in | _o__) what we believe is evil.” —Albert Einstein | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
