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Re: Revised "Alice" license



On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:43:32 -0400 Luke Faraone wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I last asked about the Alice project at
> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-legal@lists.debian.org/msg39534.html.
> They have since changed their license to include a 5th clause.

Wow, things are getting worse, rather than better...  :-(
My personal recommendation was to persuade upstream to drop restrictive
clauses, not to add another one!
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/01/msg00030.html

> 
> Upstream URL, if you care: http://alice.org
> 
> Is this DFSG-free, assuming I either A) get permission from CMU to call my
> debian package "Alice" or B) change the name to something else, like
> "Carol", in addition to removing the gallery and art assets?

If you remove the non-free gallery and art assets (as you really should
do), clause 5 seems to become moot.  As a consequence, I think you'll
get the same answers as you got back on January.
At least, I think my personal analysis still holds:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/01/msg00025.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/01/msg00030.html

> 
> 
> By the way, I'm not subscribed to the list, so please CC me on replies.

Done.


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