Re: METIS package
Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> I am not sure that it is sufficient for you (personally) to be granted
> permission to redistribute the software, as many other people and their
> computer systems will actually be performing the redistribution. It may be
> that the author must grant Debian (as an entity) permission to redistribute the
> software.
>
I have taken permission on behalf of Debian GNU/Linux which I presume is
sufficient. I regard it as satisfactory for non-free. Note that we don't
claim that anyone can "freely" redistribute non-free in a distribution not
labeled as Debian. So if say one of the glamorous derivatives of Debian
were to distribute it under a different "label", they would have to take
permission for that.
IANAL, but the form of distribution is not stated explicitly. So redistributing
within Debian in any form would be "legal". However, someone who has copied
the files from Debian would not automatically have the right to redistribute
it arbitrarily. Which is not in contradiction with non-free.
Just my interpretation of what the "logical semantics" of the license ought
to be.
Thanks,
--
Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>,
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
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