On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 05:43:19PM -0600, Karl Schmidt wrote: > I don't think the gnuplot license even qualifies it to be in Debian free: > > From the license - > >Permission to modify the software is granted, but not the right to > > distribute the complete modified source code.
I'm not terribly familiar with debian-legal (so I don't know if this had been discussed before or not), but gnuplot is still DFSG-free, per #4: > 4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code > > The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in > modified form _only_ if the license allows the distribution of "patch > files" with the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at > build time. The license must explicitly permit distribution of software > built from modified source code. The license may require derived works > to carry a different name or version number from the original > software. (This is a compromise. The Debian group encourages all authors > not to restrict any files, source or binary, from being modified.) And the copyright license for gnuplot does allow you to distribute the modified version provided that you: > 1. distribute the corresponding source modifications from the > released version in the form of a patch file along with the binaries, So it does qualify to be in Debian free, even though it IS GPL-incompatible (e.g. it may not be distributed in binary form with the GNU readline library linked to it), because of that additional restriction. Regards, Andrzej -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
