Re: [Savannah-hackers] Another licensing question for Savannah.

[Mathieu Roy]

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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