Re: DFSG-compatibility of CSIRO license

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>]

* Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> [2008-10-10 09:43]:

> My conclusion:
> 
> Non-free because it forbids redistribution for a fee. Also
> questionable because of the apparent mandatory copyright transfer.
> 
> You might want to discuss with upstream whether they can re-license
> the work under the terms of a well-known free software license; I
> would recommend the GNU GPL with “version 2 or later”, or Expat.

Thanks for the thorough analysis of the CSIRO license.  I will get in touch
with the upstream author and see what you can do about it.
 
-- 
Rafael