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Re: RFC: GPL plus securities industry disclaimer suitable for main?



Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> One such CRAN package, GPL'ed and all, was written by someone in the
> financial industry which happens to be one of the preferred habitats of
> layers, and so it carries an extra rider.  Could you good souls please opine
> if the following debian/copyright is ok for inclusion in Debian main?

Why do you want to include it?  I can't see any indication that you have
to force others to accept these terms if you redistribute the software.

If there is indeed such a requirement, we cannot distribute the software
at all because the choice-of-law clause is generally viewed as
incompatible with the GPL.



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