On Sun, 22 May 2005 05:58:41 +0200 Florian Weimer wrote: > QPL is usually considered free, but its use is discouraged.
Wait, the QPL (with no additional permission and a choice of venue) is *not* DFSG-free (many long discussions were hold on debian-legal last summer, IIRC). Based on what has been stated and on http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/r/regexplorer/regexplorer_0.1.6-12/regexplorer.copyright, Regexplorer seems to not comply with the DFSG. I think a bug should be filed immediately... Regexplorer upstream authors should be contacted and a license change should be asked: possible solutions are a) upstream relicenses Regexplorer in a DFSG-free manner (choosing for instance the GNU GPL, or a non-copyleft GPL-compatible free license such as the 2-clause BSD) b) upstream dual licenses Regexplorer under QPL/GPL (just like Trolltech did with QT[1]) c) upstream adds a special exception and drops the choice of venue in Oslo, leaving only the choice of law (as OCaml authors did with their compiler[2]) If neither of these solutions can be adopted, the package should be moved to non-free. [1] see http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/q/qt-x11-free/qt-x11-free_3.3.4-3/libqt3-dev.copyright [2] see http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/o/ocaml/ocaml_3.08.3-3/ocaml.copyright > An > additional exception, as granted by OCaml for example, can improve > things. I would say that it would change things from "bad" to "OK"! That's quite a large improvement... ;-) -- :-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-) ...................................................................... Francesco Poli GnuPG Key ID = DD6DFCF4 Key fingerprint = C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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