Hi,
On 2024-09-18 00:56, Preuße, Hilmar wrote:
before pushing a broken package to the NEW queue: I started again
working on #698886 and have a here a package, which is quite lintian
clean. What causes headache is the license "Modified MIT license".
The following paragraph has been added by the author:
<snip>
If you copy or distribute a modified version of this Software, the
entire
resulting derived work must be given a different name and
distributed under
the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.
<snip>
Except that it is a pure MIT license. Could that cause issues?
I was involved in at least two similar occurrences of "must rename if
modified" license clauses:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2018/02/msg00026.html (InChI library)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/03/msg00092.html (Protein
DataBank files)
For InChI library it was decided against uploading it, but Protein
DataBank files were not prevented from entering the archive. In the end
both clauses were resolved upstream.
HTH,
Andrius
