Dear SixXS people, Just following up a long-outstanding Debian issue with the aiccu license.
My reading of the documentation at [1] says that the intent of the license is to include a request for clauses 4 and 5 (the abnormal use clauses additional to the standard BSD license) ie. you can kindly ask and be refused without ill will. However, falling as they do under a heading of "provided that the following conditions are met:" makes them read more mandatorially ie. you can kindly ask, and be refused without ill will, but that doesn't mean you still have to give us your software. As such, I think those two clauses would be better off as a second paragraph, reading something along the lines of: "We kindly ask that you respect the following conditions, but compliance or not thereof has no bearing on the permissions granted in the above paragraph" I'd be interested also if the Debian Maintainer (CC'd via the relevant bug report) feels this change would be sufficient to clarify the license text to match the FAQ and various reported email exchanges and hence allow aiccu to be included in the Debian distribution. [1] http://www.sixxs.net/faq/aiccu/?faq=license -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, B.Sc, LPI, MCSE On-hiatus Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.1/au/ -----------------------------------------------------------
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