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Re: licence of CommAPI from Sun



Christian Leutloff <leutloff@sundancer.oche.de> writes:

> Will it be possible to place the package in non-free? If yes, I'm
> willing to package it.

> 1.  License to Distribute. You are granted a royalty-free right to reproduce 
> and distribute the Software provided that you: (i)distribute the Software 
> complete and unmodified, only as part of, and for the sole purpose
> of running, your Java applet or application ("Program") into which
> the Software is incorporated; (ii) do not distribute additional
> software intended to replace any component(s) of the Software;
[...]

It seems to me that (ii) would prevent Debian from later including a
free (possibly partial) reimplementation of the library. I'd advise
against packaging it, even in non-free.

-- 
Henning Makholm


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