This would be my take... based on an assumption that fvwm has a free
license so the code taken from that is also free...
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 06:55:39PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
> EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
> OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
> NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR (O. FOURDAN) BE
> LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN
> ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
> CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
> SOFTWARE.
disclaimers are allowed
>
> Some part of the code, especially the routines that deal with FVWM are
> mostly taken from Rob NATION's code of FVWM;
> So here comes his copyright notice :
>
> ***************************************************************************
> * ... the concept for interfacing this module to the Window Manager, are *
> * all original work by Robert Nation *
> * *
> * Copyright 1994, Robert Nation. No guarantees or warantees or anything *
> * are provided or implied in any way whatsoever. Use this program at your *
> * own risk. Permission to use this program for any purpose is given, *
> * as long as the copyright is kept intact. *
> ***************************************************************************
The code comes from fvwm so it's free...
> The icons provided with XFCE version 1.2.5 are from :
>
> Joerg Mertin <smurphy@stardust.bln.sub.org>
> Better use: <joerg@pc50.zrz.tu-berlin.de> (faster)
No explicit license on the logos so that'd make them non-free...
> Some XPM functions are from DFM, (c) 1997 by Achim Kaiser
I have no idea what DFM's copyright is but if they're GPL or BSD then it'd
be free.
>
> Regarding XFCE, permissions to use, copy and distribute this software
> without fee is hereby granted. You can modify this program for your own use as
> long as you do not redistribute it, unless you clearly specify original name
> (XFCE) and author (Olivier Fourdan, fourdan@csi.com) and keep original
> copyright intact.
All BSD code and origanal code is covered here. We have permission to
modify and distribute. We allow the requirement to keep original
copyrights intact. I think the current trend, however, is to reject the
"without fee" clause as non-free.
So one (logo license) possibly two ("without fee") strikes against Freeness
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