On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 11:11:52AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > molphy very simple license says it is "free software". fails to have > > an explicit clause allowing modification. clarification > > would be good, but IMO there is no compelling reason why > > this can't go in main. > > Lack of permission to modify is itself a compelling reason. In the > absence of an explicit grant of permission, all rights are reserved (as > the copyright file for this package says). The use of the phrase "free > software" in the copyright statement provides no protection to any of > our users who, seeing that this package is in main, assume that they can > safely modify it and redistribute the result.
Maybe contacting the author and asking him to choose a clearer licence would be a good solution here. > > mwavem says license is GPL. why is this in non-free? does it contain > > binary-only driver or something?? > > Relevant bug from the changelog is 192270. The copyright file says GPL, > but it contains DSP binaries that don't come with source (certainly a > disputed topic). AFAICT, the conclusion in that bug report was "hmm, we > don't seem to have an explicit license for these binaries at all" -- > which would make this package non-distributable, not non-free. > > > sgb modified files must be renamed and clearly identified. why is > > this in > > non-free? > > ISTR this license element came up for discussion in the context of the > LaTeX license; I /thought/ the conclusion was that requiring changes to > filenames in the source was ok, but that requiring changes to filenames > in the binary package was not. Debian-legal, please correct me if I'm > wrong. > > > sl-modem-daemon looks like BSD-style license with noxious advertising clause. > > why is this in non-free? > > sl-modem-source looks like BSD-style license with noxious advertising clause. > > why is this in non-free? > > Hmm, I can't find anything in the list archives or in the package > history to explain why this is in non-free. I agree that this appears > to belong in main. Maybe they contain or need binary firmware or something such ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
