On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 11:58:00PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > All, > > Is the license below acceptable for inclusion into 'non-free'? It is > claimed to cover the tarsnap software, see > https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap and https://www.tarsnap.com/ for > background. > > Regarding RFP/ITP status, there is now a Salsa pipeline building the > Debian package: > > https://salsa.debian.org/jas/tarsnap/ > > It seems to build. If the license is deemed acceptable for inclusion > into Debian 'non-free' I plan to upload it, closing this old RFP bug. I > am guessing that the unusual license may have been regarded as a > blocker. >
I'm going to be *very* picky here: a restrictive reading of this might suggest that only the *exact* software without any modificatin can be distributed at all. Packaging the software for Debian amounts to modification: minimal modification but modification anyway. That presumably means we can't distribute it at all, even in non-free. All the very best, as ever, Andrew Cater (amaca...@debian.org) > /Simon > > Copyright 2006 - 2022 Tarsnap Backup Inc. > All rights reserved. > > Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, without modification, > is permitted for the sole purpose of using the "tarsnap" backup service > provided by Tarsnap Backup Inc. > > THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND > ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE > IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE > ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE > FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL > DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS > OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) > HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT > LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY > OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF > SUCH DAMAGE.
