On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 01:45:57PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > Hello, > > The inclusion of libgeotiff (which is included in debian gdal if > I'm not wrong) in fedora extras is blocked by a licencing issue that > may be relevant for debian. > > It seems like some data included in libgeotiff is covered by: > http://www.epsg.org/CurrentDB.html#use > > with > 3. The data may not be distributed for profit by any third party; > > completed by > With regard to (3) above, the data may be included within proprietary > applications distributed on a commercial basis when the commerciality > is based on application functionality and not on a value ascribed to > the freely-distributed EPSG dataset. >
This is relevant. I would move those data into a non-free package a part. That would involve re-packaging the upstream tarball, of course. > The intention of the epsg people is certainly to have their data bundled > with free software, but the comment doesn't seems to fit that goal. Indeed > in case of free software, the commercial basis isn't necessarily based on > the application functionnality, since application is available freely > somewhere. > > What is your opinion on that issue? > > The fedora extras inclusion review is here: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178162#c2 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178162#c4 > > I sent also that mail to the other people involved in the fedora review > but since I didn't ask them they are hidden. > > Regards, > -- Francesco P. Lovergine _______________________________________________ Pkg-grass-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-devel
