Hi, I am trying to get liblouis[1] packaged and in a Debian repository. Liblouis comes with a few extra permissions and restrictions that I have been told don't jive with the Debian Social Contract. Could somebody give insight on this? And possibly tell me what needs to be done for liblouis to comply with Debian rules. The language of the GPL amendments appears below, thanks.
"In addition to the permissions and restrictions contained in the GNU General Public License (GPL), the copyright holders grant two explicit permissions and impose one explicit restriction. The permissions are: 1) Using, copying, merging, publishing, distributing, sublicensing, and/or selling copies of this software that are either compiled or loaded as part of and/or linked into other code is not bound by the GPL. 2) Modifying copies of this software as needed in order to facilitate compiling and/or linking with other code is not bound by the GPL. The restriction is: 3. The translation tables that are read at run-time are considered part of this code and are under the terms of the GPL. Any changes to these tables and any additional tables that are created for use by this code must be made publicly available." 1. http://code.google.com/p/liblouis/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
