On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 07:05:17PM +0100, Mika Fischer wrote: > After confering with the head developer it turned out that the main use of the > EULA was to be on the safe side especialy regarding the contained > cryptographic code. [...] > In order to continue with the download and installation of UnrealIRCd you must > accept the following license agreement: [...] > The UnrealIRCd Team reserves the right to modify this agreement at anytime as > long as notice is given on the unrealircd.com main page at least 24 hours > before changes take effect. > ======================================================================= > > The question is: Does this EULA pose any problem for Debian distributing > UnrealIRCd (which is GPLed)? Hell yes. This is certainly DFSG-nonfree and probably GPL-incompatible. The effective license on the software can be changed spontaneously from under the user's feet, which violates DFSG 7. -- G. Branden Robinson | We either learn from history or, Debian GNU/Linux | uh, well, something bad will branden@debian.org | happen. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Bob Church
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