On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:30:35 +0100 Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > > However, why not just adopt the plain GNU GPL v2 ? > CECILL is from INRIA too I am aware of that. The question could have as well been phrased: "why not accept the fact that license proliferation is bad and stop using a new license, when it's convertible to GPL anyway and most, if not all, recipients will treat the work as if it were simply licensed under the terms of the GPL?" Please note that CECILL's GPL-compatibility is really the only reason why, in this particular case, the damage of license proliferation is somewhat *mitigated* (note that I didn't write *avoided*). > and it is also compatible with the french law ! Are you implying you have any evidence that the GNU GPL v2 is *incompatible* with french law?!? Once again: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. [...] > > > > > > > Anyway, from a DFSG-freeness point of view, that license is > > > > indeed problematic: see http://bugs.debian.org/368560 for the > > > > details. Unfortunately, there seems to have been too little > > > > progress on this bug so far. > > > Do you know if anyone contacted the owner of the code ? > > > Or if anything is planned to fix this issue ? > > > > I have not been directly involved in the issue: I think that the > > people who participated in the bug discussion should be contacted > > for further information. > OK, I sent an email to this bug to learn if there is anything new ! Thanks for helping. P.S.: Please note that, on Debian mailing lists, you should avoid sending public replies to (or Cc:ing) the original poster, unless he/she has explicitly asked to be Cc:ed. Since I haven't asked to be Cc:ed, please send public replies to the list only, and not to me as well. See the code of conduct for further details: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct Thanks. -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/nanodocs/testing_workstation_install.html Need to read a Debian testing installation walk-through? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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