Please re-read my last mail on this thread. This conversation is going in circles.
Thanks, Paul On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Paul van der Vlis <p...@vandervlis.nl> wrote: > Op 24-03-15 om 21:21 schreef Don Armstrong: >> On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, Paul van der Vlis wrote: >>> Op 24-03-15 om 18:38 schreef Paul R. Tagliamonte: >>> >>>> Unless it allows modification and redistribution of this (and we do so), >>> >>> What when the DD who packages it, would package it with the 5 user >>> limitation? >> >> If it was actually AGPLed in its entirety, the maintainer would just >> remove code which enforced the 5 user limitation. > > Next step would be a friendly question from the developper to remove the > software from Debian. > > Do you know an example of software what is distributed by Debian when > it's clear the development team behind it, doesn't want that? > > <cut> > >> In any event, without particular licenses > > The license is clear, it's plain AGPL. > >> and source files, we're having >> an academic discussion without concrete information or relation to >> Debian, which isn't on topic for debian-legal. > > I've spoken to the developer and he does not want the name of his > program into this discussion. In his opinion the question is clear. > He thinks it would make the name of his new program "dirty". > > I think you can say: Debian does not want any software at this moment > what's not "free as in beer". > > The problem is, that such software does not fit in any of the existing > repositories. The correct place of this program would be in "main", but > people expect "free as in beer" software there. Myself included. > > With regards, > Paul van der Vlis. > > > -- > Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Groningen > http://www.vandervlis.nl/ > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/mff0ju$kih$1...@ger.gmane.org > -- All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cao6p2qse+5qa9d5mycsj4psit1ouiug5phu52x3xw9avqsc...@mail.gmail.com
