is RtMidi license DFSG-free?
Hi all,
I'm thinking about building a package for RtMidi [1], as I'm
developing a package of a software that embeds it, and already found
some other packages in the archive doing it. I'm not very keen on
having duplicated code around. In any case, the license [2], a custom
licensed based on MIT, seems to be a bit wierd:
RtMidi: realtime MIDI i/o C++ classes
Copyright (c) 2003-2010 Gary P. Scavone
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
Any person wishing to distribute modifications to the Software is
requested to send the modifications to the original developer so that
they can be incorporated into the canonical version.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Especially this part: "Any person wishing to distribute modifications
to the Software is requested to send the modifications to the original
developer so that they can be incorporated into the canonical
version.", can it be considered DFSG-free?
There are at least two packages already in the archive embedding this
code, so it's probably already been considered DFSG-compliant, unless
it is an error, but I want to be sure about it.
Greetings and thanks,
Miry
[1] http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtmidi/
[2] http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtmidi/index.html#license
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