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Re: [Savannah-hackers] Another licensing question for Savannah.
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Mathieu Roy |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] Another licensing question for Savannah. |
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Sun, 17 Aug 2003 17:21:55 +0200 (MEST) |
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En réponse à Rudy Gevaert <address@hidden>:
> Hi,
> Another licensing question for Savannah.
>
> Project was submitted and uses "JAM". Included is the license for
> JAM. Is this license GPL compatible?
JAM is, IMHO, non-free.
So this project depends on a non-free software.
See below which parts qualifies JAM as non-free to me.
>
> The JAM (c) api license which is used for message storage is:
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> JAM(mbp)
> The Joaquim-Andrew-Mats Message Base Proposal
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Copyright 1993 Joaquim Homrighausen, Andrew Milner,
> Mats Birch, Mats Wallin.
> ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> =====================================================================
> LEGAL NOTICE
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The JAM(mbp) documentation and JAM API and information attached
> hereto, hereafter referred to as JAM, is protected by applicable
> copyright laws and international treaty provisions. JAM is provided
> "as is", without warranty of any kind or fitness for a particular
> purpose, either expressed or implied, all of are hereby explicitly
> disclaimed. The authors only guarantees that JAM will occupy disk
> space.
>
> The entire risk as to the quality and performance of JAM is with
> you.
> Should JAM prove defective or incorrect, you assume the entire cost
> of all necessary servicing, repair, and/or correction. In no event
> shall the authors be liable to the you or anyone else for any
> damages
> or costs, including, but not limited to, any lost profits, lost
> savings, lost income, lost information, loss of the right to use
> JAM,
> or other incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use
> or inability to use JAM.
>
> All information provided in JAM is subject to change without
> further
> notice.
>
---->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> JAM may be published and distributed to other people as long as no
> part of it is modified by any means,
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<-----
> this includes translation to
> any other language (technical or social),
------------>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and as long as no charges
> are applied (including but not limited to trading). This
> information
> may not be used to reverse engineer any application developed by
> the
> authors.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<(-------------------------------------
>
> All applications that support JAM must include one of the following
> notices in their documentation and somewhere in the product's
> credit
> section:
>
> "JAM(mbp) - Copyright 1993 Joaquim Homrighausen, Andrew Milner,
> Mats Birch, Mats Wallin.
> ALL RIGHTS RESERVED."
>
> or
>
> "This product uses the JAM(mbp) API -
> Copyright 1993 Joaquim Homrighausen, Andrew Milner, Mats Birch,
> Mats Wallin. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED."
>
> All trademarks are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
> respective holders.
>
>
> --
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>
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