Bug#532456: Are these licenses DFSG?

[Giacomo A. Catenazzi]

Eugen Dedu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have a bug report,
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532456, about licenses
> of various plugins of opal package, and I do not know if the licenses
> involved are DFSG-free.  Could you please tell me if these plugins are
> allowed to be in debian main?

The main license:

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Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann,
Technische Universitaet Berlin

Any use of this software is permitted provided that this notice is not
removed and that neither the authors nor the Technische Universitaet Berlin
are deemed to have made any representations as to the suitability of this
software for any purpose nor are held responsible for any defects of
this software.  THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY FOR THIS SOFTWARE.

As a matter of courtesy, the authors request to be informed about uses
this software has found, about bugs in this software, and about any
improvements that may be of general interest.

Berlin, 28.11.1994
Jutta Degener
Carsten Bormann
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I think there is a problem in terminology. AFAIK (but IANAL), the
"any use" doesn't include distribution of software.
For this reason I think it is safe to classify it as non distributable,

It seems that the author intention was to interpret the "any use" in
a wider manner, but this is not legally safe for us.

ciao
	cate