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Re: should I upload ljpg - lossless jpeg?



On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:09:48AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Cc'ing debian-legal...
> 
> tomas pospisek wrote:
> > 3) The copyright seems to be fine - any comments?
> 
> I don't think that...
> 
> > Copyright (c) 1993 Cornell University, Kongji Huang
> > All rights reserved.
> > 
> > Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > documentation for research purposes, without fee, and without written
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> What's with non-research purposes?
> 
> If I read the license right, this is not allowed and that is against
> DFSG (6. No driscrimination against fields of endavour)...

That's correct.  Debian has interpreted licenses like that as failing
DFSG 6 as far as back as I can remember.

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Debian GNU/Linux                   |      intellectual activity ceases.
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