On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 05:58:33PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > ------------------------------------ > Program code and documentation are > (C) Copyright 2002 BeWAN systems > All rights reserved. > > This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or > (at your option) any later version. > > In addition, as a special exception, BeWAN systems gives permission > to link the code of this program with the modem SW library > (modem_ant_PCI.o, modem_ant_USB.o), and distribute linked combinations > including the two. You must obey the GNU General Public License in all > respects for all of the code used other than the modem SW library. > > See the file COPYING.GPL for details. > ------------------------------------ > The response i got from this list at the time was that it was ok to > licence the code under the GPL and to add an additional exception for > the proprietary part like is done here, in order to put the package into > debian/non-free. > I distribute only the source in a debian conform > kernel-module-source package. > So, is there something wrong with the wording of this licence or > something other i did miss ? > BTW, i think there is, since this allow us to distribute the binary > package but not the not linked proprietary part, right ? Do we have permission to redistribute modem_ant_PCI.o and modem_ant_USB.o? That's the only thing I don't see in this license. Is that permission granted elsewhere? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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