On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:58:03PM +0200, Klaus Reimer wrote: > My problem is this sentence in the Non-Free-license of arc: > > 2) ARC may ONLY be distributed in its original, > unmodified state. Probably a dumb question, but is there any chance of finding the original author and asking for him to relicense it? > But I have to modify the source to fix a Y2K error and to do some > adjustments to allow compiling on linux. Is there any chance to do these > modifications and distribute the package in binary form in the non-free > distribution of Debian? Or is the only chance to distribute it at all to > build a "source package" with the original source code and a build-script in > it? If (2) above is a part of the license, then it sounds like a binary modified distribution is illegal by the terms of the copyright license. I'm not familiar with the rest of the license, but distributing an unmodified original with a patch script might be possible. There have been other programs with this type of restriction before. It would of course still not be free... -drew -- M. Drew Streib <dtype@dtype.org> Independent Rambler, Software/Standards/Freedom/Law -- http://dtype.org/
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