Is the SYPP License DFSG-Compliant?
Greets! :^)
I intend to package Code Crusader (jcc) and Code Medic (medic).
These two programs have DFSG-compliant (though non-GPL) licenses.
I have attatched their licenses, if anyone wants to check them over.
However, both of them depend on the JX Application Framework,
which may or may not be DFSG-compliant. After reading the license
several times, and reading the SYPP license web page several times,
and reading the DFSG several times, it is my opinion that this license
does not violate the DFSG.
It is free in every (DFSG) sense for non-commercial use. However,
payment to the authors is required for commercial use. Commercial
exploitation is _not_ prohibited outright; just requires payment.
AFAICS, it does not conflict with any provision of the DFSG, and
therefore should go into unstable/main, along with jcc and medic.
I am asking here because it is not GPL, and this is my first
dealing with a non-GPL source package. I defer to the consensus
on this issue.... :^)
Cheers!
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The Software may be freely redistributed in its original form.
If you make modifications to the Software, you may distribute them in a
separate package as a set of patches. Modifications must not alter or
remove this license or any copyright notices. The Authors are granted a
non-exclusive right to distribute and/or merge your modifications in
future releases.
If you distribute a compiled version of the modified Software, it must
clearly display the fact that it is not built from the original
distribution and must give clear directions for obtaining both the
original distribution and the source for the modifications, without any
charge beyond the costs of data transfer.
---------------
The source to Code Medic is provided primarily so people can compile it on
UNIX systems to which the author does not have access. To help others who
have the same system as you, please consider building the binary and making
it available via ftp on the main Code Medic ftp site. (Mirror sites are
always welcome, too.)
If you need to modify the source, either to get it to compile on your
system or to enhance it, you will save yourself a lot of trouble by first
discussing it with me because (1) it might already have been done in a
newer release, (2) I can check that it won't disrupt any of the myriad
subtle interactions between components, and (3) I might think of an easier
way to do it.
As mentioned above, you are only allowed to redistribute the unmodified
source package. Successful changes will propagate by being merged into the
master source and released in the next version. I want to maintain a
single distribution because this will insure that nobody will be cut off
from using future upgrades.
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Code Medic was written using:
* JX Application Framework
http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/jx/
* The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment (ACE) library.
"ACE is copyrighted by Douglas C. Schmidt and his research group at
Washington University, Copyright (c) 1993-1997, all rights reserved."
The ACE Copyright Web page has all the details:
http://siesta.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-copying.html
* Henry Spencer's Regular Expression library
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Code Medic
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(c) 1998-99 by John Lindal (the "Author").
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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
This file shall be included unchanged in all copies or substantial portions
of the Software.
---------------
The compiled version of the Software is free for all uses.
The Software may be freely redistributed in its original form.
If you make modifications to the Software, you may distribute them in a
separate package as a set of patches. Modifications must not alter or
remove this license or any copyright notices. The Author is granted a
non-exclusive right to distribute and/or merge your modifications in
future releases.
If you distribute a compiled version of the modified Software, it must
clearly display the fact that it is not built from the original
distribution and must give clear directions for obtaining both the
original distribution and the source for the modifications, without any
charge beyond the costs of data transfer.
---------------
The source to Code Crusader is provided primarily so people can compile them
on UNIX systems to which the JX development team does not have access. To
help others who have the same system as you, please consider building the
binary distribution packages and making them available via ftp on the main
JX ftp site. (Mirror sites are always welcome, too.)
If you need to modify the source, either to get it to compile on your
system or to enhance it, you will save yourself a lot of trouble by first
discussing it with us because (1) it might already have been done in a
newer release, (2) we can check that it won't break anything, and (3) we
might think of an easier way to do it.
We also ask that you please submit any successful changes so we can merge
them into the master source to benefit everybody.
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