Why aXe is in non-free
I am currently (unofficially, since Debian isn't taking new maintainers at the
moment) adopting the package `axe'. I just want to clarify exactly which parts
of aXe's license does not conform to DFSG. I want to negotiate with the
upstream author so that (hopefully) the license can be made DFSG-compliant.
The former maintainer of aXe (joost witteveen) pointed out that the
prohibition
of "commercial exploitation" is the reason.
IMHO the author probably didn't mean to exclude selling Debian CDs that
contain
aXe -- he's probably just trying (like the rest of us) to prevent people from
capitalizing on aXe by getting it for free and then selling it for profit (ie
more than the cost of distribution, etc). Anybody has suggestions how I can
work this out with him?
U
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