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Re: [Savannah-hackers] confusing license


From: Vincent Caron
Subject: Re: [Savannah-hackers] confusing license
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:14:41 +0100
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Mathieu Roy wrote:

/* nfa - NFA construction routines */ /* Construct a state-labelled
epsilon nfa for a regular expression. * Then read input and output a
word from the language defined * by the nfa that is as close as
possible to the input. */ /* * Copyright (c) 1987, the University of
California * * The United States Government has rights in this work
pursuant to * contract no. DE-AC03-76SF00098 between the United States
Department of * Energy and the University of California. * * This
program may be redistributed. Enhancements and derivative works * may
be created provided the new works, if made available to the general *
public, are made available for use by anyone. */ /* Changes copyright
(c) 1991, Alan Wendt. This work is hereby made * available to the
general public, for use by anyone. */

It looks free software, but I'm not totally sure that it is clear
enough to avoid any troubles.

I'm trying it as an exercice, serious advice still needed !

  0. no restriction on usage : looks OK
  1. freedom to study and modify : looks OK
  2. can redistribute copies : explicit, OK
3. can redistribute modifs : explicit, with a non-restrictive condition (seeks to preserve freedom 0), OK

I don't understand what the US government claims here, copyright ?





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