Re: sift and blimps license interpretation - can Debian redistribute these?

2012-02-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Laszlo, I'm forewarding this to debian-legal list [keeping debian-med-packag...@lists.alioth.debian.org in CC would be great] because I do not feel fully competent for this question. However, I think in any case it is worth trying to educate authors about the advantages of a free license. We

Re: sift and blimps license interpretation - can Debian redistribute these?

2012-02-19 Thread Paul Wise
The ftp.ncbi.nih.gov site seems to be down. Many parts of the license imply distribution is allowed but I cannot find any explicit distribution grant. Personally I would not bother trying to do anything other than getting upstream to switch to a known free software licence like the GNU GPL. Gett