Please condifer a free software license

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

some time ago there was a discussion[1] about the f2c lincense,
specifically about the part goto_trans/* which says:

 ... it is freely available without
 fee for education, research, and non-profit purposes.

The restriction to certain purposes is considered non-free according to
the Open Source definition[2] since item 6. does not allow
discrimination against fields of endeavor.  We have packaged f2c in
Debian format but because of this license it can not become part of
Debian but is rather provided in non-free.  The problem is that f2c is
at the beginning of some chain of dependencies which makes it impossible
to put all these into main Debian.

Since so far nobody followed Keith's hint[1] to replace the
functionality of goto_trans/* by Apache Commons BCEL or something like
this I wonder whether you as the author might consider droping the
restriction and using a really free license.

Thanks for considering

        Andreas.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2012/03/msg00235.html
[2] http://opensource.org/osd-annotated

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