License question

[Michael Stefaniuc]

Hello,

while trying to improve the rancid spec file i got from Dan Pfleger so i 
can start testing rancid i run into a non technical problem: the 
license. I have read the COPYING file and there is the "non-commerical 
purposes" limitation for copying, modifying and redistribution. But 
there is no mention of "use" of the software in there.
I googled around and what i found is that FreshMeat shows as license 
"Other/Proprietary License" 
(http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/rancid/) and Debian marks it as 
"non-free" (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/rancid). Couldn't 
find any previous license discussions for rancid that's why i'm asking now.
To me the software looks like an advertising BSD license with some 
non-commercial restrictions but IANAL so i asked one. His answer was: "I 
would ask that you contact the maintainers and ask that they clarify 
that the non-commercial restriction applies only to re-distribution, not 
to use, copying or modification."

What we want to do is to use the rancid internaly at Red Hat, not to 
sell it, not to distribute it and not to sell any services based on it. 
Only pure internal use.

bye
	michael
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