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[Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am Freitag, den 28.10.2016, 18:15 +0000 schrieb Gianfranco Costamagna:
> Hi,
> 
> your license seems to be not dfsg, so probably not good enough for
> launchpad ppas.
I'm not quite sure how you come to that conclusion, the text 

"You are forbidden to forbid anyone else to use, share and
improve> what you give them. Help stamp out software-hoarding!"

is the essence of copyleft, only written down in reverse, i.e. instead
of saying, to whoever who receives a copy of your (modified) version of
this program you must grant the same right under which you received it,
they wrote that you can not forbid them to do, what you were allowed to
do. 

Everything else of the license seems like an excerpt from an old GPL
version (i.e. no patents related stuff etc)  

Best, 
Gert