Axe licensing
I just got a message from the aXe author:
> ...
> that context. It is not as if aXe is being taken and passed off as
> someone else's work and sold at great profit, which I think is the
> sort of situation envisaged by the University's regulation (and which
> doesn't seem to deal with the CD packaging arrangement that has become
> common).
So it seems we can go on creating a package of it.
> I think I mentioned previously that I have come across aXe on one or
> two CD collections that are sold for profit (and which may also be
> available free on the net) but no-one contacted us first. In one case
> the company sends me a complimentary copy of each distribution - they
> do 4 per year. I find that a most satisfactory arrangement as it has
> allowed me to set up machines very conveniently both in the
> departmanet and at home. If Debian had made a CD distribution then I
> would have suggested that a similar arrangement would have been most
> acceptable.
Is there aynone on this list who creates Debian CDs and is willing to send
one to Jim? Maybe we can persuade him to work primarily on Debian that way.
I would prefer the original author to maintain the Debian package if
possible.
Michael
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Michael Meskes
Lehrstuhl fuer angewandte Mathematik insb. Informatik
RWTH-Aachen, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
email: meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
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