Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Folks, > > I maintain GNU R (www.r-project.org and www.$ISOCODE.project.org) and a > growing number of packages from its CRAN archive (cran.r-project.org, also > country-code mirrors). R is GPL'ed, and most of the CRAN packages are too. > > One such CRAN package, GPL'ed and all, was written by someone in the > financial industry which happens to be one of the preferred habitats of > layers, and so it carries an extra rider. Could you good souls please opine > if the following debian/copyright is ok for inclusion in Debian main?
After a quick once-over, it doesn't look so good. <snip> > You agree to be bound by our standard disclaimer contained at the bottom of > this page. This is a little funny. Probably harmless. > You agree that you are a customer of Commerzbank who has been issued > with a valid password or the employee of such a customer who is > authorised by such customer to use such password and to access and > make use of this product area. This is just not true. That would make the whole thing undistributable. <snip> > The terms of use are to be construed in accordance with the Laws of > England. This is GPL-incompatible. Otherwise, it looks mostly harmless. Regards, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
