[To: programmers listed as IglooFTP contributors] [Cc: to debian-legal mailing list]
Hello, sorry for bothering you about what you might consider a quite futile issue. As you might know, Jean-Marc Jacquet released a new 'PRO' version of his ftp software IglooFTP. The main point is that not only it has a non-free license, but sources aren't even distributed any more: http://www.littleigloo.org/iglooftp.php3 I also noticed that Jean-Marc has removed all traces of the GPLed 0.6.1 release from his website; the download section at http://www.littleigloo.org/softwares_fr.html#IGLOOFTP leads to broken links. But the GPLed 0.6.1 version still exists; it is in the source tree of the Debian distribution, for instance. Moreover, Jean-Marc re-released 0.6.1 under the Artistic license, which I don't know if he is allowed to do without changing the version number. Meanwhile, he implemented Igor's patch for VMS to one of those two 0.6.1 versions. Although I do not use IglooFTP very often, I am quite disappointed by this license change because: * I don't understand why Jean-Marc decided to make IglooFTP non-free if he only intends to provide email support. Anyone knowing the former versions' source code and/or having used IglooFTP as well might do the same. * this new version of IglooFTP won't be available for the Debian distribution. * the new version of IglooFTP crashes on my computer. There is no way I can fix it without having the source code. I will have to PAY for the registered version to be able to get support for a crash-free version ! So, what I intend to do is to ask Jean-Marc why he released his program under a non-free license, and whether he agrees to change his mind. Before that, I would like to know: - was Jean-Marc allowed to release IglooFTP 0.6.1 under the GPL, and later release the very same version under a different license ? - what license was Igor's patch released under ? - did the other contributors provide patches or just ideas ? It they were patches, what license were they released under ? - was Jean-Marc allowed to use those patches in the non-free version of IglooFTP ? Thanks a lot for your information, Sam. -- Samuel Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.via.ecp.fr/~sam/ echo "what is the universe"|tr "a-z " 0-7-0-729|sed 's/9.//g;s/-/+/'|bc
