On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:03:52 -0400 Joe Smith wrote: > > "Francesco Poli" <frx@firenze.linux.it> wrote in message > [🔎] 20060427225655.746fc174.frx@firenze.linux.it">news:[🔎] 20060427225655.746fc174.frx@firenze.linux.it... > > >The license you quoted is definitely non-free, because of the many > >restrictions it contains: it fails DFSG#1 and DFSG#3, I would say. > >You should try contacting the copyright holders (AT&T, Christopher W. > >Fraser, and David R. Hanson) and persuading them to relicense lcc in > >a DFSG-free manner. > > I suspect that this would be virtully impossible as AT&T would > probably have difficulty > finding the relevent documents, having the corporate lawyers, aprove > the relicencing, > and finally reciving offical approval. Nothing is virtually impossible, as long as people are actually willing to do it. OK, leaving high-sounding sentences to fortune(6), what I mean is: if Heretik succeeds in persuading the involved people, then the paperwork can be done and a happy ending can follow. > > >If you fail in doing so, you should try to find a DFSG-free > >replacement for lcc. > > We already have one: gcc. I have not taken a close look at the package > but I suspect it is only using some auxillary tools from lcc. > If this is indeed the case, then a replacemnt for those tools will > need to be found. > It is entirely possible that debian already contains replacements for > these tools. Since I don't know what are these lcc tools that are used in the Tremulous build process, I cannot tell if DFSG-free replacements are already in Debian. Someone more knowledgeable than me will be able to answer, I hope. -- :-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-) ...................................................................... Francesco Poli GnuPG Key ID = DD6DFCF4 Key fingerprint = C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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