Re: pax being DFSG

[Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>]

On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, David Frey wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 9 1997 22:09 +0200 Riku Voipio writes:
> > > > >> David Frey <david@eos.lugs.ch>:
> > > > >>   pax-2.1-3
> > > > >I've already filed a bug report on ftp.debian.org that pax is not
> > > > >DFSG-compliant and should be removed.
> > > > >
> > > > >[Recap: 
> > > > > Licensing
> > > > >
> > > > >    Copyright (c) 1989 Mark H. Colburn.
> > > > >    All rights reserved.
> > > > >
> > > > >    Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
> > 
> > Isn't modifing the source one use of the source form??? This licence
> > allows use of the source the package licenced. 
> 
> What do the other people think? I'm feeling still a bit uncanny.
> The original author is not reachable anymore, btw.

Unless the license explicitely allows distribution of modified sources
we'll have to assume that doing so is not allowed. This makes the package
non-free.

(I don't think that "distribution of modified sources" is meant by "using"
the software :-)


Thanks,

Chris

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