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Re: sugarcrm licence issue



Sorry, hilariously badly misaimed. Back to -legal with this.

Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 05:42:07PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>>> This is based on the contents of their copyright files. Can we please
>>> stop this "The only code under the MPL is Mozilla" argument?
>> 
>> It's not an "argument"--nobody is claiming that a license is free or non-
>> free based on whether or not the license is being used.  (I'm a bit
>> disappointed that you're essentially saying "even if this license is
>> non-free, you can probably get away with it anyway", though.)
> 
> The ultimate decision over whether a license is free or not rests with
> the FTP masters. They can be overruled by a general resolution. The
> presence of code under the MPL in the main section of the archive
> suggests (but does not confirm) that the people who actually make the
> decision believe it to conform to the DFSG.
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> Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.legal@srcf.ucam.org
> 
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