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Re: Joke non-free clauses?



tag 533555 patch
retitle 533555 Clauses 4-6 can be ignored by a new clause 8; clarify copyright file
summary -1 533555
severity 533555 minor
thanks

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Don Armstrong wrote:
> If the real maintainers can actually be contacted by mail and get a
> binding response that clauses 4-6 are jokes, and promise to remove
> or make them clearly requests in future releases, I think that'd be
> sufficient.

After a series of e-mails with the upstream maintainer, I've gotten
clarification that clauses 4-6 are meant to be jokes via the addition
of a new clause 8: http://dumb.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=licences
[There isn't a clause 7.]

I'm personally still not happy with the license, but that's because
it's not sane, not because the intent is to make it fail the DFSG. [I
don't have an opinion about whether Debian continues to distribute
DUMB.]


Don Armstrong

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