On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 06:50:17PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > What can we do with the www.distributedfolding.org software, which is > under this license (http://www.distributedfolding.org/license.html): > /***************************************************************************** > -- TRAjectory Directed Ensemble Sampling (TRADES) > -- > -- Author: Howard J. Feldman, Christopher W.V. Hogue > -- June 7, 1999 > -- > -- Hogue Lab - University of Toronto Biochemistry Department > -- Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital > -- > -- Copyright Notice: > -- > -- Copyright ©1999. Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada. All Rights > -- Reserved. > -- > -- Disclaimer: > -- > -- Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its > -- documentation for educational, research, and not-for-profit purposes, > -- without fee and without a signed licensing agreement, is hereby granted, > -- provided that the above copyright notice, this paragraph and the > -- following three paragraphs appear in all copies, modifications, and > -- distributions. > -- > -- Contact Terry Donaghue, The Office of Technology Transfer & Industrial > -- Liaison, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, Canada, > -- (416) 586-8225, for commercial licensing opportunities. > -- > -- IN NO EVENT SHALL MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR > -- DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, > -- INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE AND ITS > -- DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE > -- POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. > -- > -- MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF > -- MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE SOFTWARE AND > -- ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION, IF ANY, PROVIDED HEREUNDER IS PROVIDED "AS > -- IS". MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL HAS NO OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE, > -- SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS. > -- > -- > **************************************************************************/ > So the software is clearly not DSFG compliant, but distribution is > authorized not-for-profit. Could it go in non-free? Yes, if Debian and its mirrors can legally distribute it, it can go in non-free. > As a second hypothesis, we could write an installer for this software (a > small package that would download the software on the user's machine > during pre-inst, and install it). What section could it go to then? > Contrib? > Would there be something mandatory to do, like displaying the license, > asking the user if he accepts it, ...? What's the value of having it in contrib instead of in non-free? That sounds like a subterfuge to me. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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