On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> wrote:
> Le Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 02:52:53AM +0200, Arnaud GRANAL a écrit : > > > > I have bad news about this. > > > > Maxim is very clear about this issue: > > "You can distribute only unmodified sources." =( > > Hi Arnaud, > Hi Charles, > > Sorry to read this. Note that Debian actually allows that > kind of clauses, if they are accompanied by guarantees > that we can patch at build time: > > http://www.debian.org/social_contract.en.html#guidelines > This licensing, however, sounds incompatible with point 3 of the DFSG: "Derived Works The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software." > > However, I am not sure that it is worth the effort trying to convince the > maintainer to go that way, expecially that in Debian the d4x package is > maintained by the QA team, whose task is herculean. > > Dear QA team, shall we proceed with the removal of the package? > > I believe you should to avoid any copyright issues. Now this software is completely orphaned and the active user base is pretty small. Regards, -- Arnaud Granal
