Hi, Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:58:28PM +0200, Thomas Walter wrote: > Here I need some light. > > Where is a copyright break when I install from source using configure > options of my best choice, in this case for example 'libreadline' and > its best friend 'libhistory'. Well, I do not think there is any (depending on the precise licenses actually) as GPL-like licenses are considered to be enforced only while distributing software. Which exactly is what Debian is for. See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=322827 > By the way, from my point of view: > For software in this categorie (science, heavy math oriented) it is best > to install always from source to profit from best optimizations for > underlying hardware. F.e. just think about 'atlas' and 'fftw'. So you think a Gentoo-like way of distributing the software would work around the licensing issues? Instead of workarounds, could not it be easier to explain to science software authors the benefits of _really_ free software (I mean DFSG) licenses? Is not the free software way of producing software a mimic of the way of producing knowledge and science? I believe most of almost-free licenses for science software are the simple consequence of ignorance or lack of concern for the copyright matters. Binary distributions like Debian cannot overlook such problems. See for example: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/physics-software-rant.html Best regards, Frederic Lehobey
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