Re: Re: sybase license and openWatcom DFSGness

2016-08-01 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Guus >I don't see that anything has changed in the past ten years, so I don't >think a clarification will do any good. Why does VirtualBox keep relying >on the OpenWatcom provider? There's bcc and faucc. QEMU's SeaBIOS is >compiled with GCC (but looking at the source, all the 16-bit code is in

Re: Re: sybase license and openWatcom DFSGness

2016-08-01 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
(I'll drop -devel starting from next email, following up on debian-legal isntead) >If you agree, I think it's better to ask the question instead at >‘debian-legal’. Hi Debian-Legal list :) forwarding the discussion from -devel here Basically, we thought OpenWatcom license wasn't DFSG for Debain

Re: Re: sybase license and openWatcom DFSGness

2016-08-01 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Paul >I didn't see a question in your mail :) would a clear statement from them satisfy Debian standards? or should them relicense? >Is there any reason they can't relicense to something more standard? Not sure, big company, legal issues, difficult to track people for changing it, I don't