On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 04:03:26PM +0200, Eric Maeker wrote: > Thanks Guido, > > I've read the thread. I think we should include this complex discussion > inside the Debian wiki. > > If I've clearly understood, a package that would contain any data with > this licence would not be elligible to the free repo of Debian even if > these data remain "exactly as is". > > We could think that these data could be distributed non modified with an > application and then when user runs this application for the first time, > data are processed. In this case, Debian distribute unmodified data. Am > I wrong? > > Eric > I'll of course defer to Charles' ability to understand french, so working from the English translation (which is to say, I might be missing something), I don't see the same issues he does. Both the ISC and MIT/Expat license don't explicitly allow distribution of modified works, but it's pretty implicit: / ISC | Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for | any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the | above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. \ ISC (OK, this has an and/or, so perhaps not the best example, sorta like how the BSD licenses do this explicitly) / Expat | 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: \ Expat / LOOL | • To reproduce, copy, publish and transmit the « Information » | • To disseminate and redistribute the « Information » | • To adapt, modify, transform and extract from the « Information », | for instance to build upon it in order to create « Derivative information » | • To exploit the « Information » commercially, for example, by | combining it with other « Information », or by including it in your own | product or application. \ LOOL I'd have to think more about it. Cheers, T -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> | Proud Debian Developer : :' : 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~paultag `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag/conduct-statement.txt
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