On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 01:26:53PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > First of all, by this message you have our permission to distribute a > > modified version of IMAPD. > > That to me says Debian has permission to re-distribute our modified > version, but that people who recieve it from us do not, unless they too > ask permission ("We do expect and appreciate..."). Non-free.
Right, it fails DFSG 7. Anthony Towns and Raul Miller don't seem too concerned about it (see their followups to my -legal message of August 23rd), however. > If she had written just "We appreciate..." I'd be comfortable putting it > in free. Yes, as I said in that same message, they really are quite close to a DFSG-free license. The trouble is, they don't appear to know it. -- G. Branden Robinson | A committee is a life form with six or Debian GNU/Linux | more legs and no brain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Heinlein http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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