Re: Please give opinion about "Bug#509287: afio: license is non-free"
* Erik Schanze:
> There is an ongoing discussion on a Redhat list
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449037 and they excluded
> the package already. There is an other blog on
> http://www.kernelplanet.org/fedora/ that gave a summary of the current
> situation.
I think the analysis in <http://spot.livejournal.com/303000.html> is
somewhat simplistic. At least the FSF reference is doubtful--the FSF
considers licenses free even they are free only if the licensed work
is combined with other software. The FSF also considers stacked
licenses acceptable (like those for Python), and assumes that only the
topmost license is in effect.
On the other hand, if we consider the analysis to be correct, afio
shouldn't go into non-free, either, because it lies about its own
copyright status and should be considered undistributable as a result.
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