problematic license
After contacting the author of one of my packages (psk31lx), he has changed
the license, which might allow us to put it into main. Here it is:
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This software may be distributed as freeware, as long as it is only
used for amateuer radio purposes.
Explicit permission is given to distribute this software freely on
Internet FTP/WWW-servers, Telephon Mailboxes, Amateur Packet BBS and
CD-ROMs, as long as the reference to the author is not removed.
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The way I read this is:
Anyone can distribute this, but only amateur radio operators can use it.
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I suppose this is not good enough for main, how can we garantee that
only amateur radio operators use this software? I could of course
include a shell script, which starts the main program after the user
agrees it is only used for 'amateur radio purposes'.
What do you think?
Thanks for your attention,
Joop
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Joop Stakenborg PA4TU, ex-PA3ABA <pa3aba@debian.org>
Linux Hamradio Applications and Utilities Homepage
http://www.casema.net/~aba
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