It does not allow modification. Not free Le 30 sept. 2013 09:43, "Sebastien Jodogne" <s.jodo...@chu.ulg.ac.be> a écrit :
> On 09/30/2013 12:23 AM, bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > >> Package: orthanc >> Severity: serious >> >> FPL is non dfsg: it does not allow modification. >> Please move to non-free/repackage. >> > > Dear Bastien, > > Thanks for your bug report. I am the upstream developer of Orthanc [1]. > > I am unsure that the FPL you refer to is the same as the FPL of the SHA-1 > package by Paul E. Jones that is shipped with Orthanc [2]. Here is the > content of the FPL from SHA-1: > > "Copyright (C) 1998, 2009 > Paul E. Jones <pau...@packetizer.com> > > Freeware Public License (FPL) > > This software is licensed as "freeware." Permission to distribute this > software in source and binary forms, including incorporation into other > products, is hereby granted without a fee. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS > IS' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT > LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A > PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE AUTHOR SHALL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES > RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, > INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED > INACCURATE." > > > This looks to me like a permissive MIT license. I have always thought that > this license is compatible with the FSF philosophy. This is evidently not > the same license as the so-called Foundation Public License by Bridgethink > (also nicknamed FPL), which is indeed incompatible with the Debian Free > Software Guidelines [3]. > > If you do confirm that the FPL of the SHA-1 package is incompatible with > Debian policy, I will immediately switch to another library (Orthanc 0.6.2 > is to be released this week). I will most probably use boost::uuid if this > change is required. > > Regards, > Sébastien- > > PS: I also forward this mail to the "debian-legal" mailing list. > > > [1] > http://packages.debian.org/**sid/orthanc<http://packages.debian.org/sid/orthanc> > [2] > https://code.google.com/p/**orthanc/source/browse/**Resources/sha1/<https://code.google.com/p/orthanc/source/browse/Resources/sha1/> > [3] > http://www.libroscope.org/FPL-**la-licence-libere-l-argent<http://www.libroscope.org/FPL-la-licence-libere-l-argent>(in > French only) > >
