On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:36:44 +0100 Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 05:46:31PM +0100, Stefan Potyra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Am Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008 16:30 schrieb Jean Parpaillon: > > > Hi, > > > I intend to package HPL benchmarks. Copyright file contains the > > > following statements: > > > ---------------------- [...] > > > -------------------- > > > > > > I've read DFSG and I'm not sure if items 3 and 4 are problematic. Can > > > someone help me ? If it's not ok, may it be in contrib ? > > > > IANAL, but this license doesn't seem to allow modification, does it? > > Good point. Which brings us to the next point: this is really a > question for -legal. I'm sending it there with this mail. :-) Indeed, if the *whole* permission grant is the text between the two ----- lines, I cannot see any permission to modify. Actually, to be precise, I cannot see *any* permission grant: only constraints seem to be present. Which makes me suspect that we are not reading the complete license text. Hence, if what we read is the whole license text, then I think the work under consideration fails to comply with the DFSG (at least because it fails DFSG#3). Otherwise, if we haven't yet seen the complete license text, then someone please quote it fully or else we won't be able to analyze the DFSG-freeness of the ITP'd package... My usual disclaimers: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. -- http://frx.netsons.org/progs/scripts/refresh-pubring.html New! Version 0.6 available! What? See for yourself! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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