Gentoo Archives: gentoo-licenses

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-licenses@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-licenses] mmix license
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:20:31
Message-Id: 21301.12487.133051.38865@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
1 Does this qualify for the MISC-FREE license group?
2
3 | This file is part of the MMIXware package (c) Donald E Knuth 1999
4 |
5 | This file may be freely copied and distributed, provided that
6 | no changes whatsoever are made. All users are asked to help keep
7 | the MMIXware files consistent and ``uncorrupted,''
8 | identical everywhere in the world. Changes are permissible only
9 | if the modified file is given a new name, different from the names of
10 | existing files in the MMIXware package,
11 | and only if the modified file is clearly identified
12 | as not being part of that package.
13 | (The CWEB system has a ``change file'' facility by
14 | which users can easily make minor alterations without modifying
15 | the master source files in any way. Everybody is supposed to use
16 | change files instead of changing the files.)
17 | The author has tried his best to produce correct and useful programs,
18 | in order to help promote computer science research,
19 | but no warranty of any kind should be assumed.

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