Please enable free redistribution of Multiple Sclerosis Severity Score
Hi Richard,
I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team a group inside Debian
that has the objective to make Debian the best distribution for medicine
and biology by packaging according software for main Debian. Following
this attitude we have created Debian packages of mssstest[1].
The thing is that the licensing statement says:
Anyone may copy it but no one may sell it.
which is a restriction that is regarded as non-free according to the
Debian Free Software Guidelines. So mssstest was never part of the
official Debian distribution.
We would like you to reconsider the restriction under the following
considerations:
- Did you earned a mentionable amount of money by selling mssstest
yourself?
- Do you consider that anybody else would earn a mentionable amount
of money by selling a freely licensed program?
- Would you agree that it is in the interest of mssstest code and
the users to have a free distribution inside Debian?
It would be great if you would simply drop the restriction and enable us
to integrate mssstest into Debian properly.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mssstest
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