Re: [bug-inetutils] Re: telnet cleanup

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > ... WITHIN THAT CONSTRAINT, permission to use, copy, modify, and
   > distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and
   > [without fee] is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright ...
   >
   > `without fee', seems to mean that commercial distribution is not
   > allowed, and thus making it incompatible with the GPL, and non-free as
   > well.  Do people agree with this reading?  If so, we must rewrite, or
   > remove these parts of inetutils.
   >
   >
   Are you sure it doesn't mean "no fee is required to use, copy, modify,
   and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose"? I
   think it's disclaiming any royalties that might be implicitly required.

That is one interpretation.  I am not sure which is safer.