On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 8:45 PM, Philippe THIERRY wrote: > The main tool is based on the following license file (LICENSE.txt) :
This is almost identical to the 3-clause BSD license, the only change is s/university|regents/copyright holder/ > You may not redistribute aPLib without all of the files. May violate DFSG item 3. > You may not edit or reverse engineer any of the files (except the header > files and the decompression code, which you may edit as long as you do not > remove > the copyright notice). May violate DFSG item 5. > You may not sell aPLib, or any part of it, for money (except for charging > for the media). May violate DFSG item 6. > - Is the main software legaly acceptable for Debian ? The 3-clause BSD license is a very common DFSG-free license. > - Do i need to clean the upstream (deleting aPlib dir) making a dfsg package > or the upstream can be kept in the source package untouched if the aPlib is > not installed in the bin packages ? If you want the source package in Debian main, it must be fully DFSG-free. So your options are to either put the whole thing in non-free, strip the aPlib dir or convince the aPlib copyright holders to release it under a DFSG-free license. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
