Re: webmin license
Wouldn't it simply go into non-free in the cases of Debian Gnu/Hurd and
Debian/*BSD just like any other "non-commercial use" license? Here's
the general case of this question: should a license that restricts one
port of Debian (ie Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/Hurd, or Debian *BSD ATM)
into placing it into non-free consequently restrict all ports, despite the
DFSG-freeness of the licensure in their case? There is one more thing
that this question brings up--a "port" is used for both a port of Debian
Gnu/Linux to a specific architecture and a translation of the Debian
userspace to another kernel: could/should there be different words used
in each case for differentiation purposes?
<-policy added to the cc list, because my questions border on policy>
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> > (A note for debian-legal members, all the information which can be found
> > about webmin licensing is on the website, pasted here:
> >
> > What licence is Webmin distributed under?
> >
> > 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.
> > )
>
> Which means we can't put it in main since we can't distribute it for
> GNU/Hurd for example, or GNU/BSD (or whatever it will be called) when/if
> that arrives.
>
> Wichert.
>
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