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| author |   Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@gentoo.org> | 2011-08-02 07:00:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@gentoo.org> | 2011-08-02 07:00:58 +0000 |
| commit | 66f251f39a52e784dd8d2ae64c76f616af8c4f74 (patch) | |
| tree | 90b8713e9027f8b1d88456dd8b850ebe623d3f14 /licenses | |
| parent | Fix DEPEND/RDEPEND (noticed the bison was in RDEPEND). (diff) | |
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diff --git a/licenses/4F b/licenses/4F deleted file mode 100644 index eeec0be57f90..000000000000 --- a/licenses/4F +++ /dev/null @@ -1,166 +0,0 @@ -<HTML> -<HEAD> -<TITLE>4F LICENSING</TITLE> -<STYLE> -DT { font-weight: bold; } -</STYLE> -</HEAD> -<BODY> -<H1>4F LICENSE AGREEMENT</H1> - -<B>Revision:</B> 2 November 2, 2002 -<P> -This license is (C) Copyright 2002 Lameter Corporation, -7131 Cabernet Ave, Newark, CA 94560, United States of America, http://lameter.com christoph@u-OS.org -</P> -<P> -Distribution of exact copies of this license agreement is allowed and must -be redistributed with all modifications and enhancements to this product. -</P> -<P> -The text of section 1 might be changed if this license agreement is -to be applied by a copyright holder for another software product. -</P> -<P> -<B>THIS SOFTWARE MIGHT BE OBTAINED UNDER DIFFERENT LICENSING AGREEMENTS.</B><BR> -Please contact the license holder(s) for details. -</P> -<P>Note that this license is in its early stages of formulation. It will most likely be refined in the next weeks. -Ultimately a non-profit should be the license holder and not a commercial entity. It might take awhile until -the necessary organization and funds are available to start such a non-profit organization. -Comments are appreciated. Please respond to christoph@u-OS.org.</P> - -<H1>SECTION ONE: The software under the 4F License</H1> -<DL> -<DT>Name of the Software Product<DD>uPM - Micro Package Manager -<DT>Short Description<DD>uPM is a package management system with source build and archive maintenance capability -<DT>License Holder<DD>Lameter International Corporation, 7131 Cabernet Ave, Newark, CA 94560, http://lameter.com info@lameter.com -<DT>Distribution License<DD>4F Class D -</DL> -<H1>SECTION TWO: The 4F License</H1> -<P>The aim of this license is not to restrict your rights. <i>4F Licensing</i> was developed to preserve the four freedoms when using a software product: -</P> -<OL> -<LI>The freedom to obtain and review the source code for the software product. The <i>4F license</i> requires that the source be made -available for software products distributed under 4F licenses. -<LI>The freedom to redistribute the source code and the binary. The <i>4F license</i> gives anyone the right to redistribute -the source as well as the binaries. -<LI>The freedom to modify the source code and redistribute the modifications. -<LI>The freedom to use software for any purpose by any person. -</OL> -<P><i>4F Licensing</i> protects your and other persons rights to make use of these freedoms. -Redistribution is only allowed if the person you are distributing to will also have the Four Freedoms. -A 4F License becomes invalid if those rights are not given. And this license is the only legal justification for the -use, modification and deployment of this software. -</P> -<P>We have chosen not to use the typical terms <b>Free Software</b> or <b>Open Source Software</b> -because both terms have led to a wrong understanding of this type of licensing in the past. -The concern of free or open source licensing is <b>not</b> to get the software for free -(meaning one does not have to pay any money for it) but to preserve the Four Freedoms. -The term <b>Free Software</b> typically leads to that misunderstanding. -The term <b>Open Source</b> often seems to avoid mentioning the Four Freedoms that need to be preserved. -It also gives rise to the misunderstanding that the access and ability to view the source code is sufficient. -<P> -We have chosen the term 4F (long <i>Four Freedoms</i>) because it does not have the baggage of the other terms -and clearly expresses the purpose of <i>Free</i> or <i>Open Source</i> Licenses. -<P> -<i>4F Licensing</i> allows different grades -of protection of these rights. If a <i>4F licensed</i> product is combined with other products the four freedoms might no -longer be applicable to the whole. <i>4F licensing</i> defines CLASSES of protection. A later class requires that the requirements of all earlier classes be fulfilled too. The following classes exist: -<TABLE BORDER=1> -<TR><TH>Class</TH><TH>Description</TH></TR> -<TR><TD>A</TD><TD><B>No protection</B>. -The sourcecode might be modified and redistributed under other licenses at will. -4F Class A licenses are similar to BSD licensed code. -The only provision is that credit is given to the authors of the code in the final product.</TD></TR> -<TR><TD>B</TD><TD><B>Protection for the software product itself</B>. -The Four Freedoms must be preserved for all modifications of the source code that are distributed. -The product might be combined (f.e. linked into) other software that is licensed differently. -The combination of other software plus the software product might not preserve the Four Freedoms. -Class B licensing is similar to the protection offered by the LGPL. -</TD></TR> -<TR><TD>C</TD><TD><B>Program (Executable) protection</B>. -The Four Freedoms must be preserved for all binaries generated. -If a piece of software is used for the generation of a binary -then all sourcecode that was used to generate the binary and all shared -objects loaded must also be made available under the Four Freedoms. -If this is not possible then the combination or the production -of the binary is not permitted under this license. -</TD></TR> -<TR><TD>D</TD><TD><B>Media / Site protection.</B>. -The software might not be distributed on media combined with software not preserving -the four freedoms. This means that publication on a CD that contains non 4F compliant software is not -permitted. The medium and all content must be sharable under the Four Freedoms principle. -The same is true for publication of ftp sites. -Publication on ftp sites that also distribute non 4F compliant software is not permitted. -CDs and ftp site contents must be freely redistributable and modifiable in order to satisfy Class D. -</TD></TR> -<TR><TD>E</TD><TD><B>System protection.</B>. -The Four Freedoms must be preserved for all software installed under the same Operating System and all software -used to install the system and any software on it. -The license becomes invalid if software is present under the installation -with the same operating system that contain software not conformant to 4F licensing. -Specifically this prohibits installation of proprietary software (such as Microsoft Software) under the same installed -operating system as a Class E product. -</TD></TR> -<TR><TD>F</TD><TD><B>Organizational protection</B>. The software might not be used by an organization/group/corporation that -is combining the use of the software so licensed with software that does not provide the Four Freedoms. -</TD></TR> -<TR><TD>G</TD><TD><B>Protection for program interaction</B>. The software must be deployed in such a way that it does not interact (transfer data to/from, use documents formatted by) non 4F compliant software.</TD></TR> -</TABLE> -<P> -4F licensing aims to be conforming to the DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines http://www.debian.org), the OSI criteria -for free software licenses (Open Source Initiative see http://www.opensource.org) and the free software criteria of the -Free Software Foundation (The GNU project see http://www.gnu.org). -Only Classes A-C are compliant with the criteria of the those organizations since protection against loss of the Four Freedoms by aggregation is only permitted for binaries. -</P> -<H1>SECTION THREE: Warranty</H1> -<P> -The software is provided and licensed free of charge therefore there is no -warranty for the software to the extent permitted by applicable law. -</P><P> -This license is void in legal context where a law makes the copyright holder -or any contributor provide a warranty for this software that was provided free of charge. -</P><P> -There is no warranty unless otherwise stated in writing by the copyright holders. -The software is provides "as-is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed -or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability -and fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk of using this software -is with the user of this program. Should this software fail then the user will -assume the cost of all necessary services, repairs, corrections or whatever -else is necessary to remedy the situation. -</P> -<H1>SECTION FOUR: Liability</H1> -<P> -In no event unless required by applicable law or agree to in writing will any -copyright holder, or any other party who may have modified and/or redistributed -the software under the regulations of this license be liable to you for damages -including any general, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out -of the use or inability to use the software (including but not limited to loss -of data or data being rendered inaccurate or losses sustained by the user or -third parties or a failure of the software to operate with any other software), even -if such holder or other party has been advised of the possibility of such damages. -</P><P> -This license is void if the above limitations are rendered ineffective by law or -judicial decision. -</P> -<H1>SECTION FIVE: Definition of Terms</H1> -<P> -<DL> -<DT>4F Conformant License<DD> -A conformant license is a license that is conformant to the Free Software/Open Source principles. -OSI accredited licenses (see http://www.opensource.org) are -4F conformant. So is any license that allows the exercise -of the Four Freedoms. Examples of conformant licenses are: -<UL> -<LI>4F Licenses -<LI>GPL (is a 4F Class C compliant license) -<LI>LGPL (is a 4F Class B compliant license) -<LI>BSD (is a 4F Class A compliant license) -<LI>Public Domain (is 4F Class A compliant) -</UL> -</DL> -<P> -</BODY> -</HTML> - |