* TANIGUCHI Takaki <takaki@asis.media-as.org>, 2009-10-15, 11:35:
* Package name : xcite Version : 1.58 Upstream Author : HIROSE Yuuji [yuuji@gentei.org] * URL or Web page : http://www.gentei.org/~yuuji/software/ * License : original This software is distributed as a free software without any warranty to anything as a result of using this. Especially, I am not responsible for the case when you cite your friend's mail with a silly citation prefix in a serious situation :) * Can I incorporate this program into Debian package? Yes.
Upstream's agreement neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for a piece of software to be included in Debian. First of all, it needs to have a clear, DFSG-free license attached...
This "Yes" is NOT a special answer only for Debian. My recognition on `free software' is not the permanently constant notion. Therefore I won't define the fixed licensesentences at any moment of my life.
...which upstream refuses to provide.
All I can say now is I hope the free software be; freely usable, freely (re-)distributable without any charge for itself, freely modifiable unless the original author(=me)'s copyrights are infringed or neglected, absolutely not responsible to any result from itself. If there is A license clauses which implies these points above in some era, this software can be classified into the group that the clauses want to assume as `free'.
This wording is far too vague. Please bug upstream to use a well-known license.
-- Jakub Wilk