Ben Finney <[email protected]> writes: > Sian Mountbatten <[email protected]> writes: > > > Please find attached the copyright for this new package. > > Where is the new package? There are multiple licenses, and it's not > clear what they're referring to. The freedom of a work is best > determined by examining the work and the license together.
While waiting for the work to know what the license grants are referring to, here are some comments on the terms. > The original source of the QAD Standard Prelude can be had on demand > from the maintainer. What happens when the maintainer is not contactable? > Here is the copyright of the Ctrans source:- […] > (b) any amended version of this Program be clearly marked to show the > nature of the amendment and of the name of the amending > organisation, This fails the Dissident test: it forbids the recipient from making anonymous changes to the work and redistributing them. > and > (c) any recipient of such reproduction or amended version accept the > conditions set out in this legend. This is a non-free restriction. The license grant must not depend on the recipient actively doing anything (the same reason that “postcardware” is non-free). I would recommend the maintainer collaborate with upstream to re-license that work under a widely-used well-understood free-software license. The apparent intent seems best met by a 3-clause BSD license, but maybe the simpler Expat terms would be satisfactory. -- \ “I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no | `\ feet. So I said, ‘Got any shoes you're not using?’” —Steven | _o__) Wright | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
