Re: RFS: snes9x
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Hello Michael,
On 03.10.2011 00:51, Michael Moorman wrote:
> Is the non-commercial use clause what
> makes it non-free according to the DFSG?
>
quoting from the license (highlighting by me):
> Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute Snes9x in both binary and
> source form, for non-commercial purposes, is hereby granted without fee,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> providing that this license information and copyright notice appear with
> all copies and any derived work.
That's a clear contradiction to our Debian Free Software Guidelines
(DFSG) where I quote §6 ("No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor")
[1]. So yes, this restriction makes your package non-free. Everything
else reads ok to me and would qualify as free software.
[1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract
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with kind regards,
Arno Töll
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