On Thursday 22 April 2004 10:42 pm, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > 1. Redistributions qualify as "freeware" or "Open Source Software" under > > one of the following terms: > > Pick any one: > > > > > (a) Redistributions are made at no charge beyond the reasonable cost of > > materials and delivery. > > Prohibits commercial use. Can't use that one. > > > (b) Redistributions are accompanied by a copy of the Source Code or by an > > irrevocable offer to provide a copy of the Source Code for up to > > three > > years at the cost of materials and delivery. Such redistributions > > must allow further use, modification, and redistribution of the > > Source > > Code under substantially the same terms as this license. For the > > purposes of redistribution "Source Code" means the complete > > compilable > > and linkable source code of alterMIME including all modifications. > > Copyleft. Again, poorly worded, but close enough. Very similar (including > timeframe) to the GPL, which is OK. Assuming (BIG assumption) that the > copyright holder interprets this language in the same way as the equivalent > language is interpreted in the GPL, this term is satisfied, hence clause 1 > is OK.
Sorry, I missed that this was either/or. Yeah, (b) by itself is DFSG free. As for the "recursive" license -- I think this is just a case of including code that had a slightly different license. It also appears to have been free. So I guess you're okay. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com
