On Apr 24, 2009, at 1:27, Jonathan Marsden <jmars...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
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?
No objection here. I know we use it in BibleTime, but there is no
reason we can't try to get a copy from elsewhere or use other methods
to do the same thing. There has been talk of using other (for us that
would mean Qt) implementations to do the same thing that dirent does
so as to be more UTF aware.
--Greg
Jonathan
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