Re: Non-Free License? (was Weird source tarballs)

[Bradley Bell <btb@debian.org>]

It looks like it is just making explicit the restrictions which already exist
in law (whatever those might be), and is not part of the license per se.

-brad

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:29:22PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> Ok, thanks for the help... problem #2:
> 
> there's a README in the documentation has a standard warranty
> disclaimer, but then it has this text:
> 
> US Government Users Restricted Rights 
> Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to
> restrictions set forth in FAR 52.227.19(c)(2) or subparagraph
> (c)(1)(ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software
> clause at DFARS 252.227-7013 and/or in similar or successor
> clauses in the FAR or the DOD or NASA FAR Supplement.
> Unpublished-- rights reserved under the copyright laws of the
> United States.  Contractor/manufacturer is Silicon Graphics,
> Inc., 2011 N.  Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94039-7311.
> 
> 
> Which seems to imply that US Government users have additional
> restrictions, which probably goes against point #6 of the DFSG, but i'm
> not sure what the restrictions are (and have no idea how to look them
> up). Should i put this non-free?
> 
> * Julian Gilbey (J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk) wrote:
> > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:00:55PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> > > i'd like to package the opengl manpages... but there tarballs are a bit
> > > strange... they're .Z files to begin with, and they don't appear to have
> > > a version number (some other docs have 1.2 as a version, so i suppose i
> > > can assume this) and the files untar into a directory called
> > > "release". I'm guessing i'm going to have to rename and retar the
> > > directory, but i couldn't really find any policy on how much to
> > > change. Is it alright to let the thing untar into some other directory?
> > 
> > Probably sufficient to uncompress it and gzip it:
> > 
> > uncompress opengl-1.2.tar.Z
> > gzip -9 opengl-1.2.tar
> > mv opengl-1.2.tar.gz opengl_1.2.orig.tar.gz
> > 
> > Then untar it (tar zxvf opengl_1.2.orig.tar.gz; mv release opengl-1.2), 
> > do any changes you need (introduce debian/ directory etc.) and try
> > building it.  dpkg-source is pretty intelligent these days, so you
> > probably don't need to worry about the directory name.
> > 
> >    Julian
> > 
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