I've been doing sparc binary builds for non-free, and reading the
copyright/changelog files as I go. I have a question wrt SNNS.
From the license:
"In contrast to the GNU license we do not allow modified copies of our
software to be distributed. You may, however, distribute your
modifications as separate files (e.g. patch files) along with our
unmodified SNNS software."
From the changelog:
snns (4.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New maintainer.
* New upstream release.
* debian/rules: Complete rewrite using debhelper (closes: #51093).
* debian/control: Added Build-Depends, upped Standards-Version to 3.1.0
* tools/sources/symtab.c: Changed MAXFLOAT to FLT_MAX because of compile
problem (the latter is ANSI, alternatively I could have defined
__USE_XOPEN)
* xgui/sources/ui.h: Used "ui__h" as include sentinel macro instead of
__ui which clashes with /usr/include/bits/string2.h from glibc.
* man/man1/*: Changed manpages to reflect namechange from xgui to snns.xgui.
-- Torsten Landschoff <torsten@debian.org> Thu, 25 Nov 1999 02:18:01 +0100
To me, it appears as if the software has been modified. (Indeed, I could
even see where packaging the software might be considered "modifying", but
I'm more concerned with the actual changes to source files.)
Comments please? Torsten, am I totally misunderstanding what's been done?
Regards,
Steve
ps: Please cc replies to me, as I am not subscribed to -legal.
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