Re: revisited ITP: webmin

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 04:39:32PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Thursday 9 December 1999, at 16 h 41, the keyboard of Gergely Madarasz 
> <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > I've posted an ITP webmin (www.webmin.com) couple of months ago, it was
> > not dfsg-compliant then. Now Caldera acquired it, it is under a BSD
> > license, so we can put it in main.
> 
> No. See <http://www.webmin.com/webmin/intro.html>:
> 
> ----------------
> Following the acquisition of Webmin by Caldera, all past and future
> versions of Webmin on Linux are available under the BSD licence. This
> means that on the Linux platform, Webmin may be freely distributed and
> modified for commercial and non-commercial use.
>
> On non-Linux platforms, Webmin is also freely distributable for
> non-commercial use. However, if you want to include it in a non-Linux
> based commercial product, contact me about licencing.
> ---------------

first it says that it's under the BSD license, and then it says that it
isn't.

if it's BSD licensed then it is free for any use, modification,
redistribution - regardless of whether it is on linux or not, and
regardless of whether it is included in a commercial product or not.


hmmm. looks like someone has pointed that out to the author because the
web page now says:

 : Following the acquisition of Webmin by Caldera, all past and future
 : versions of Webmin are available under the BSD licence. This means
 : that on Linux and other platforms, Webmin may be freely distributed
 : and modified for commercial and non-commercial use.


> It violates DFSG #8 "License Must Not Be Specific to Debian".

looks like it's fine now.  The BSD license is DFSG free.

craig

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