On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 10:24:38PM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: > I'm ITP'ing PDFlib which has an "Aladdin Free Public License". The > full text is available from > http://www.pdflib.com/pdflib/aladdin-license.pdf > which in short and non-legal terms comes down to > - you may develop free software with PDFlib, provided you make all of your > own source code publicly available > - you may develop software for your own use with PDFlib as long as you don't > sell it > - you may redistribute PDFlib non-commercially > - you may redistribute PDFlib on digital media for a fee if the complete > contents of the media are freely redistributable. > I'm not so sure about the last two items. They smell like non-free to me. > I also intend to package the Perl module PDFlib (Debian poackage will be > called 'libpdflib-perl') which has the same license as Perl itself. This > one has to go in contrib if PDFlib goes in non-free. > The module Apache::AxKit::Language::AxPoint of the AxKit package and Perl > module XML::Handler::AxPoint are dependent on that Perl module. Am I right > in thinking these latter two also have to go in contrib then? I'm familiar with its license terms because we use it at work -- PDFLib is definitely non-free. Even point 2 of the license (you may develop.. as long as you don't sell it) violates the DFSG. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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