Sorry, this is really late, but I did not see this thread before... On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 11:35:28PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > I know nothing of what the "GNU folks" requested. The license was posted > to debian-legal and we commented on it. I had never seen the license > before. I doubt Henning had either. Either way we should tell RMS to look a bit more thorough if he really wants more software be free. Or people should ask on a Debian mailing list instead of asking "GNU folks" ,-) > > I feel that if I work on this clause, who knows what you folks will > > object to next? > > Nothing, in my case. I can't speak for your "GNU folks". Get rid of that > clause and your software could go into Debian, should anyone choose to > package it. In fact it is already packaged. Matthias Klose made the package and I recently became its maintainer. I would really like it to go into main but I know I can't without this clause being removed. > I would like to see a a legal opinion on that clause. It is possible that > it has no effect at all. If so, the license is already DFSG compliant. Too bad but I am not a lawyer... I guess it will not have any impact in Iraq (I don't think anybody there cares about US laws), but probably it is of interest in Germany... cu Torsten
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