severity 290242 serious retitle 290242 Prozilla is non-free: requires notification for commercial use thanks Justin Pryzby wrote: > Package: prozilla > Version: 1:1.3.6-11 > Severity: normal > > ftpparse.c heading: > > Commercial use is fine, if you let me know what programs > you're using this in. > > Which I believes fails the desert-island test? Legal, can you > confirm? Confirmed; requirements to notify the author are non-free. However, non-binding requests to notify the author are fine, and copyright holders who put such requirements in their licenses are often amenable to changing those requirements into non-binding requests separate from the license. I suggest contacting the upstream developer and requesting such a change. When doing so, I suggest *not* going into extensive detail on Debian's legal procedures and the "Desert Island Test"; immediate discussion of legalities and tests tends to put most people off. Instead, I suggest discussing some of the consequences of having such a term in the license: inconvenience, privacy issues, and the consideration of what would happen if any significant number of Debian's ten-thousand packages had such conditions. Other debian-legal denizens may be able to offer advice on good ways to approach the upstream developer. - Josh Triplett
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