Quoting Göran Weinholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Package: hwb > Severity: serious > > I talked to one of hwb's upstreams (Tomas Ögren) about licensing hwb > under a DFSG free license. He told me that they couldn't do that, > because they don't own the rights to the material. If they don't own > the rights to the material, we can't distribute it. > > I believe that hwb therefore should be removed from Debian. >
Hi Göran, It was (and is) my understanding that all material in hwb was submitted to hwb for inclusion __under the current hwb license__. However, because not all the contributors are available (in a couple of cases, I believe it's not known who the contributors are even) logistically, it's not possible to contact them all If you do not own the rights for something it says nothing about whether you have the right to distribute it. It *does* mean that you can't summarily change the license as I understand it. I'm CCing debian-legal to make sure my understanding is correct. The license for hwb is: Copyright The Hardware Book Team 1996-2001. May be copied and redistributed, partially or in whole, as appropriate. This is clearly not DFSG free as it doesn't grant the right to modify, but it's clearly distributable. I've CCd the hwb team and hopefully they can clarify that my understanding is correct. If it is not correct then you are right, we can't distribute it. If it turns out that we can't distribute hwb then I'll create an external repository for the package. It's very useful. If nothing else, this bug has perked me up and I've noticed that there's a new version of hwb out now, I'll package that as soon as I have a spare couple of hours. debian-legal people: I read -legal, no need to CC me but please keep the bug log in the CC list hwb people: similarly, I would greatly appreciate if you kept the bug log ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in the CC list. Cheers, Stephen -- Stephen Stafford | Development and support consultant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.clothcat.org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Never put off until tomorrow what you can <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | con someone into doing for you today ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
