[Fedora-legal-list] Suprem4 Stanford license clarification

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 11:35:40 UTC 2011


On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Shakthi Kannan <shakthimaan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if the following license terms are acceptable for Fedora?
>
> === LICENSE ===
>
>  (C) Copyright (1994) The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior
> University. Except for commercial resale, lease, license or other commercial
> transactions, permission is hereby given to use, copy, modify, and
> distribute this software. STANFORD MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES
> OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THIS SOFTWARE.
>
> No support is implied or provided for these older versions of Stanford
> TCAD software.
>
> === END ===
>
> Source: https://github.com/cogenda/Suprem4
>
> My assumption is that it is non-free because it restricts its resale,
> lease for a specific purpose?

Your assumption is correct.  Non-free and therefore not permissible in Fedora.

josh



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