license questions

[Gianluca Sforna]

On 1/18/07, Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
> On Thursday 18 January 2007 00:38, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 00:13 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
>
> > > are these two licenses ok for packages in fedora/extras:
> > > | This software is in the public domain. Permission to use, copy, modify,
> > > | and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and
> > > | without fee is hereby granted, without any conditions or restrictions.
> > > | This software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
> > >
> > > from http://www.fourmilab.ch/xd/
> >
> > Yes, Public Domain is GPL Compatible, Free.
>
> To be sure you did not read over it, the "without fee" requirement in the text
> above is not a problem?
>
Of course, IANAL, but I read it as they are giving anyone those rights
without asking a fee in return. That is, the "without fee" not being
part of the restrictions but of the granted rights.