On Sun, 22 May 2005 05:58:41 +0200 Florian Weimer wrote:
> QPL is usually considered free, but its use is discouraged.
Wait, the QPL (with no additional permission and a choice of venue)
is *not* DFSG-free (many long discussions were hold on debian-legal last
summer, IIRC).
Based on what has been stated and on
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/r/regexplorer/regexplorer_0.1.6-12/regexplorer.copyright,
Regexplorer seems to not comply with the DFSG.
I think a bug should be filed immediately...
Regexplorer upstream authors should be contacted and a license change
should be asked: possible solutions are
a) upstream relicenses Regexplorer in a DFSG-free manner (choosing for
instance the GNU GPL, or a non-copyleft GPL-compatible free license
such as the 2-clause BSD)
b) upstream dual licenses Regexplorer under QPL/GPL (just like Trolltech
did with QT[1])
c) upstream adds a special exception and drops the choice of venue in
Oslo, leaving only the choice of law (as OCaml authors did with
their compiler[2])
If neither of these solutions can be adopted, the package should be
moved to non-free.
[1] see
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/q/qt-x11-free/qt-x11-free_3.3.4-3/libqt3-dev.copyright
[2] see
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/o/ocaml/ocaml_3.08.3-3/ocaml.copyright
> An
> additional exception, as granted by OCaml for example, can improve
> things.
I would say that it would change things from "bad" to "OK"!
That's quite a large improvement... ;-)
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