Bug#323533: DCC is non-free

2005-08-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:11:34PM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:25:18AM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > Hi Duncan, > > could you please have a look on the version of DCC in sid/etch/sarge > > first. > > The version of DCC in Debian is the latest version before up

Bug#323533: DCC is non-free

2005-08-17 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 02:30:20PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Are there any other details available on exactly what happened leading > up to the license change? One can change a license to protect oneself > from harrassment, without agreeing with the claims being made. One can > even tell ot

Bug#323533: DCC is non-free

2005-08-17 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:25:18AM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Hi Duncan, > > could you please have a look on the version of DCC in sid/etch/sarge > first. > > The version of DCC in Debian is the latest version before upstream > changed its license. I understand this, but as I mentioned,

Bug#323533: DCC is non-free

2005-08-16 Thread Duncan Findlay
Package: dcc Severity: serious First (of course) IANAL. And I could be entirely wrong (I hope so). It is my understanding that DCC (Distributed Checksum Clearinghouses) is not free because of patent issues. According to the license at http://www.dcc-servers.net/dcc/dcc-tree/LICENSE: * This agre