On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 07:40:05PM +0100, Roberto Lumbreras wrote: > I'm the maintainer of radius-merit package, and currently debian > version is 2.4.23, but now Merit has a new version, 3.5.6, with lot > of changes and enhancements. > > One of their changes is the lincense, now it doesn't permit > distribution: > > "... > Distribution of this software or derivative works or the associated > documentation is not allowed without an additional license. > ..." The new version of radiusd-merit cannot be distributed with Debian. That's a pity. You can try to convince the authors to loosen their license but I doubt they will as they had a looser license before. This means either debian is stuck with the old version or we have to drop this package. Special licences for Debian are deprecated. > I'm afraid that without their permission we'll have to continue > with old version 2.4.23, or maybe giving up with radiusd-merit and > maintaining other radius packages like radiusd-livingston... Correct. In this case I'd suggest supporting the free version. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * joey@infodrom.north.de * 26129 Oldenburg / / The good thing about standards is / / that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum /
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