On 24 October 2016 at 16:25, Dieter Werthmüller <dieter@werthmuller.org> wrote:
1. Copyright(C) 1996 Takuya OOURA (email: ooura@mmm.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp). 2. You may use, copy, modify this code for any purpose and without fee. 3. You may distribute this ORIGINAL package. In the second sentence, it basically states that you can do whatever you want with it. Then as far as I understand the third sentence, it just gives additionally and specifically the permission to even distribute the unchanged package. Or does the absence of the word 'distribute' in the second sentence cause a problem?
With my scientist hat on, I think that he intended to let you do whatever you want with it, but with my not-really-a-lawyer hat, it can be interpreted both ways, so an actual lawyer may get squeamish without a more explicit agreement. /David.