Hi Antonello,
Thanks a lot for your standing involvement with this license issue. I am
forwarding your message to the debian-legal mailing list.
Summary for the debian-legal folks: the legousb project currently uses a
header file taken from the Lego Mindstorms SDK. This file is distributed
under a non-DFSG compliant licence. Antonello Salvatucci is negociating
with the Lego company in order to relax the licencing conditions, which
could make legousb a free software product.
Could you please give your advice about the clause (iii) below? The
background on this discussion can be seen at the threads in legousb-devel
starting at the messages:
http://sf.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1605045&forum_id=2772
http://sf.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1606958&forum_id=2772
http://sf.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1606959&forum_id=2772
http://sf.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=2569353&forum_id=2772
----- Forwarded message from Antonello Salvatucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:13:01 +0200
From: Antonello Salvatucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Legousb-devel] Mindstorms SDK license
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi all,
Some time back there has been some discussion on this list regarding a
proposed change to the Mindstorms SDK license agreement to allow inclusion
of the USB Tower Linux driver with the Debian distro (see previous
discussions about this in the list archive).
After some talks back and forth, it has been decided to keep the
non-commercial clause. However it has been proposed (not approved yet) to
add a specific exception regarding device drivers that looks like this:
(iii) Any end-user applications developed by means of the SDK or parts
hereof shall only be used for purposes that neither directly nor indirectly
have any commercial implications; however, device drivers developed by means
of the SDK or parts hereof may be included and sold as part of operating
system distributions, as long as said operating system distribution is also
made available to everybody for download, free of charge;
How does this sound?
Antonello
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Antonello Salvatucci
Interactive Playmaterials and 3D Platforms, LEGO Virtual
Global Innovation and Marketing, LEGO System A/S
DK-7190, Billund - DENMARK
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