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Re: Please give opinion about "Bug#509287: afio: license is non-free"



* MJ Ray:

> More seriously, the Lachman Associates licence doesn't give any
> permission to modify the software, does it?

Right, this is clearly a problem.  Consequently, the dubious state of
licensing does not matter much (except if you buy into the "stack of
licenses" idea, which we generally don't, except maybe for Python).

> So, I feel we should either claim that we believe the SunSite summary
> for some reason that I can't see, seek relicensing from
> Sun/Verizon/Kodak, or drop the package as undistributable.

Undistributable because it's been modified, contrary to the original
license terms?  Hmm.


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