I'm planning on packaging the amiwm window manager. It's an AmigaOS lookalike WM, with multiple workspaces and a customizable tools menu (but it doesn't support submenus as yet, so menu package support will have to wait for this upgrade).
Anyway, it looks like it's going to have to be in non-free. I contacted the author on the copyright, and this is what he said: ---Marcus Comstedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm aware that the copyright statement is very fuzzy and I'll try to > supply a better one in future distributions (if any). Anyway, the license > for amiwm does _not_ contain a generic license to produce derived works > using my source code. I'll probably grant licenses to specific derived > works should someone ask me, but no such license is given implicitly with > the software. I'll allow distribution of patches in the form of diffs > though. My filosofy here is that I don't want people to confuse bugs > written by other people with the bugs written by me. ;) Since there's no implicit derived works license, my understanding is that this contravenes DFSG section #4, which requires an explicit license (and it would have to be a non-exclusive one). Anyway, perhaps we need to look at providing a section between "contrib" and "non-free" that allows for software that is redistributable without restrictions but is not DFSG-free (i.e. stuff that people can stick on CD-ROMs without wandering through every copyright file in non-free), or at least a convention for tagging non-free packages as CD-ROMable. This would be consistent with our goal of making it "easy for people to produce CD-ROMs of our system without violating any licenses, import/export restrictions, or any other laws" (per Policy) and would not compromise the ideological purity of the DFSG. Chris == Chris Lawrence Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Political Science Major University of Memphis Contract Programmer Memphis, Tennessee, USA FedEx - Operations Research _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
