Hi, I ee a problem with 6. c. If the items are not available to the general public, and the initial developer of the Software requests a copy of the items, then you must supply one. What if I have my family-only private piece of software that I use together with the Software, and give that to my brother (i.e. I distribute it), and the initial developer knows about it, he can make me give it to him? Badly constructed examples, but this smells non-free to me. nomeata Am Sa, den 24.04.2004 schrieb martin f krafft um 16:38: > Sorry, this should have gone to -legal straight, not first to > -devel. > > Please CC me on replies! > > I would like to package a software released under the QPL licence: > > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/libcwd/libcwd/LICENSE.QPL?rev=1.1 > > It *seems* that the QPL is DFSG-free, but I would like to have > confirming voices. It disallows the source code to be distributed in > modified form, but allows the packaging of patches alongside for > modification at build-time. Thus, I think paragraph 4 of the DFSG > makes this package packageable. > > I am trying to convince the author to change the licence, but if > I don't succeed... can I package libcwd for Debian? > > Thanks, -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: joachimbreitner@amessage.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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