On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:45:23 -0500 Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Alexander Schmehl dijo [Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:24:36PM +0200]:
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Talked to Jörg Jaspert about that (you need to do something during work
time, don't you?), and this clause is indeed free (since it's so
ridiculous easy to circumvent^W fullfill). So for the sake of gaming,
bundle it with any kind of script, and be done with it.
I agree that this restriction does *not* fail the DFSG, but, as said
elsewhere in this same thread, it's silly.
It can be easily circumvented, so it's useless.
See my 2-byte script example in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/12/msg00077.html
As usual, my disclaimers are: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP.
But please try to make this world a saner place by talking about this
to the upstream author.
Yes, I definitely agree that upstream could be suggested to drop such a
useless restriction and adopt the plain (unmodified) zlib license.