Re: METIS package
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 03:46:42AM +0300, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >
> > I am not sure that it is sufficient for you (personally) to be granted
> > permission to redistribute the software, as many other people and their
> > computer systems will actually be performing the redistribution. It may be
> > that the author must grant Debian (as an entity) permission to redistribute
> > the software.
>
> I have taken permission on behalf of Debian GNU/Linux which I presume is
> sufficient. I regard it as satisfactory for non-free. Note that we don't
> claim that anyone can "freely" redistribute non-free in a distribution not
> labeled as Debian. So if say one of the glamorous derivatives of Debian were
> to distribute it under a different "label", they would have to take
> permission for that.
Perhaps you should post the exact language that the author used when granting
this permission? That would be the definitive source of information. If she
said "You have my permission to redistribute", that is different from "Debian
has my permission to redistribute".
Note that redistribution outside of Debian is not the issue; all of the Debian
archive mirrors (those which carry non-free) must have definitive permission to
redistribute the software.
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- mdz
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