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Re: pdb files license



Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel <frederic-emmanuel.picca@synchrotron-soleil.Fr>
writes:

> I am a little bit concern by this redistribution restriction.
> It seems that redistribuing unmodified file is allow but if you modify
> a file it is not allow to redistribut it with the same name on the FTP
> server.
>
> So DFSGFree or not ?

Yes, DFSG #4 grudgingly allows such restrictions, which are annoying but
understandable (and shared to a lesser extent by TeX, which requires a
name change to accompany any backwards-incompatible modifications).

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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