RE: License and section
For licensing issues you probably should use -legal
instead of -mentors.
Technically it is a modification to package it for
Debian. Do you think you have permission to:
- produce one shot package for Debian
- package this release for Debian *and* maintain the
packaging part in the future
- package this release for Debian *and* maintain the
ROOT part *and* packaging part in the future
- blanket license to package all future releases for
Debian and maintain at least the packaging part
(this would be my guess)
- something else?
As has been pointed out this is definitely very non-free.
Perhaps the ROOT-team is concerned to preserve their
reputation and package integrity. In that case you could
try to persuade them to change license to
distribute under different name if modified
type of license. I believe that it was considered free.
t.aa
Christian Holm Christensen <cholm@hehi03.nbi.dk> Sat Dec 04, 99 3:04 PM
> I'm planning to make a ROOT (http://root.cern.ch) Debian GNU/Linux
> package, but I'm not quite sure what thier License entails, as far as
> the Debian system is concerned. I've included the lisence below. The
> lines that I'm concerned about are:
>
> Additionally, the authors grant permission to modify this
> software and its documentation for any purpose, provided that
> such modifications are not distributed without the explicit
> consent of the authors ...
>
> Does this mean that the package should go into "non-free"?
>
> I've asked the ROOT team how they felt about a Debian package
> (spcefically the redistribution via debian.org), and here is what Fons
> Rademakers answered:
>
> Concerning redistribution via debian.org, if our current
> license is good (open) enough for them it is fine with
> us. However, for the time being we want to retain the line:
> ".... provided that such modifications are not distributed
> without the explicit consent of the authors ..." in our
> current license. /.../ Anyway, if you decide to go ahead it
> would be nice if you will follow our release schedule /...
>
> I take this to mean that if the Debian Orginization finds the below
> lisence ok, then the ROOT team won't object.
>
> Thanks for your help. Please notice that I'm not on the
> "debian-mentors" mailing list (I've never made an official Debian
> package before), so if you could please send a possible answer to me
> too (cholm@nbi.dk) - thanks.
>
> ### Start of ROOT Lisence ################################
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