Re: MIT + explicit "Don't sell this code." - DFSG compliant?
- To: David Given <dg@cowlark.com>
- Cc: debian-legal@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: MIT + explicit "Don't sell this code." - DFSG compliant?
- From: Fab Stz <fabstz-it@yahoo.fr>
- Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 14:35:34 +0100
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Thank you David for your answer.
The author asked me what he could do to be DFSG compliant.
I pointed him to this mailing list, to the wikipedia & wiki.debian.net page on
DFSG. Any other suggestion?
Regards
Le lundi 28 février 2022, 15:23:28 CET David Given a écrit :
> I believe this is equivalent to the 'no commercial use' clause which
> violates guideline 6 ('no discrimination against fields of endeavor, like
> commercial use'). Apart from anything else, inclusion would mean that
> Debian wouldn't be able to sell DVDs with this package in it.
>
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 at 15:00, Fab Stz <fabstz-it@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am wondering if something like this is fit to enter Debian:
> >
> > There is a web tool written in PHP that I try to package for Debian.
> > I would like to use Tagify in that project by adding the minified js.
> >
> > Now the thing is that officially the project is licensed under MIT with a
> > MIT
> > license file at the root of the project directory
> > .
> > However when looking at the header of the distributed files, there is this
> >
> > /**
> >
> > * Tagify (v 4.9.8) - tags input component
> > * By Yair Even-Or
> > * Don't sell this code. (c)
> > * https://github.com/yairEO/tagify
> > */
> >
> > So, no mention of MIT and only mention of Don't sell this code.
> >
> > I filed an issue [2] upstream about this inconsistency.
> >
> > Could this actually enter a Debian package?
> >
> > I'm wondering because of the JSON no evil [3] case.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Fab
> >
> >
> > [1]: https://github.com/yairEO/tagify
> > [2]: https://github.com/yairEO/tagify/issues/996
> > [3]: https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil
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