Bug#532456: Are these licenses DFSG?

[Florian Weimer]

* MJ Ray:

> cate wrote:
>> Eugen Dedu wrote:
>> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532456, about licenses
>> 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.
>
> I'd agree with that unless someone can tell me why not.

Surprise, surprise---it does include distribution:

|                                  oOo
| 
| Since the original terms of 15 years ago maybe do not make our
| intentions completely clear given today's refined usage of the legal
| terms, we append this additional permission:
| 
|       Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software
|       for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted,
|       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.
| 
| Berkeley/Bremen, 05.04.2009
| Jutta Degener
| Carsten Bormann

Just downloaded from <http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html>.

("Use" in German copyright law refers to exploitation of the
copyright.  Reading a book is not considered "use".)