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Re: Difference between license in files and in COPYING file



On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
Joachim Wiedorn <ad_debian@joonet.de> writes:

> So there is only on step to do: Move d4x into the non-free archive.

Take care: The fact that a work is non-free does not mean the Debian
project has license to redistribute it in the ‘non-free’ section. Many
works are so non-free that they cannot be legally redistributed at all
by the Debian project.


This part of the license seems to answer that question pretty clearly:

/*      WebDownloader for X-Window
 *
 *      Copyright (C) 1999-2002 Koshelev Maxim
 *      This Program is free but not GPL!!! You can't modify it
 *      without agreement with author. You can't distribute modified
 *      program but you can distribute unmodified program.
 *
 *      This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *      but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *      MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
 */
 
ie; Not even a Debian Maintainer can modify the software to package it.  So this software looks like a non-starter for inclusion in Debian, even in non-free.

--
Chris




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