On 2010-04-21 20:05, Michael Scheidell wrote:
On 4/21/10 2:03 PM, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
The part of MySQL which is used in Debian (the code without the manual)
is licensed under GPL.
so, the same with DCC.
Not as far as I can see. At both <http://www.rhyolite.com/dcc/> and
<http://www.dcc-servers.net/dcc/> they link to another, non-generic,
license.
Quote about the free license from the general info page:
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You can redistribute unchanged copies of the free source, but you may
not redistribute modified, "fixed," or "improved" versions of the source
or binaries.
---8<---
The actual license says:
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This agreement is not applicable to any entity which sells anti-spam
solutions to others or provides an anti-spam solution as part of a
security solution sold to other entities, or to a private network which
employs the DCC or uses data provided by operation of the DCC but does
not provide corresponding data to other users.
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software without
changes for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided
that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all
copies and any distributed versions or copies are either unchanged or
not called anything similar to "DCC" or "Distributed Checksum
Clearinghouse".
---8<---
Wich is more permissive than the info page indicates, but it's not the
GNU General Public License.
Debian *might* be able to distribute DCC under another name, like they
did with Firefox / Iceweasel etc.
Regards
/Jonas
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Jonas Eckerman
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