Re: Non free license?
Hi Pietro,
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 08:32:32AM +0100, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> I'm interested in packaging Shapely, a python library [0].
> The library was already packaged once, uploaded and then rejected by
> ftp-masters: I tried to get the reason but didn't get a response from
> (eventual) maintainer, neither from ftp-masters.
> In the end, I'm repackaging it from scratch, but also trying to guess
> what could be the reason of the rejection, and I noticed a not really
> standard license... but in fact, it's a normal 3-clauses BSD license,
> with the third clause slightly modified [1].
> Could you confirm this license is OK with debian?
> [0]: http://trac.gispython.org/lab/wiki/Shapely
> [1]: http://svn.gispython.org/svn/gispy/Shapely/trunk/LICENSE.txt
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Yes, this is a normal 3-clause BSD license, with the standard author name
substitution, and is perfectly acceptable for Debian main.
There should have been a reject email sent by the ftpmasters in response to
this upload, if it was rejected out of the NEW queue. Perhaps it was sent
to your sponsor?
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