Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: >>> Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its >>> documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided >>> that this copyright and permissions notice appear in all copies and >>> derivatives, and that no charge may be made for the software and its >>> documentation except to cover cost of distribution.
>> *Free Redistribution* >> >> The license of a Debian component may not restrict any party from >> selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate >> software >> distribution containing programs from several different sources. The >> license >> may not require a royalty or other fee for such sale. >> Does that go well with "no charge may be made for the software and its >> documentation except to cover cost of distribution."? >> I'm not sure this is GPL compatible either. > Good point. No clue. There have been no replies on debian-legal yet. Intuitively (which is always a dangerous way to deal with legal wording, I realize!), the "no charge may be made ... except ..." clause is clearly a restriction on all parties on selling this software. I've met this kind of thing before, though I forget what package it was (!), and I am 99% sure (though I am also not a lawyer!) that this kind of language pushes code into non-free or metaverse repositories -- that is, it is not DFSG-free to restrict how much one can charge for selling the software. In this case, though, I believe this file is only needed for Windows, since under Linux and *BSD we have /usr/include/dirent.h already. Therefore, we can simply remove it from the tarball in a get-orig-source rule. Are there any objections to my doing this? Jonathan _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
