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Re: should I upload ljpg - lossless jpeg?



Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> writes:

>> 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)...

FWIW, xmedcon was uploaded with this license in November last year and
I rejected it for this reason; it then got re-uploaded with a newer
license from upstream which fixed this problem.  See it's copyright
file and/or maintainer for more details ...

-- 
James



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