On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 03:06:42PM -0500, Daniel Martin wrote: > Wouldn't even that interpretation cause trouble? It would be a bummer > for places that make money by selling Debian CDs. > > DFSG point 1: 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. > > This license restricts my ability to sell the software as a component > of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several > different sources. It's nastily non-free as far as CD vendors are > concerned. > The way I read it it only restricts its sale alone, not with a group of other software. Anyway, the point is moot. I got in touch with the upstream authors and they have both agreed to slap a GPL license on it (yay!). -- Steaphan Greene <sgreene@cs.binghamton.edu> GPG public key: http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~sgreene/gpg.key.txt
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