On Friday 14 May 2010 07:57:48 Anmol Sharma wrote: > I was looking at RFP's (Bugs #446461 and #419730) for Frostwire, a free > Limewire alternative. There is already an upstream Debian package (NOT > Linitian clean of course) so I began poking around the source. What stumped > me is the presence of a EULA.txt which adds a few more restrictions to the > GPL . Also, there is an 'advertisement window' when the program is > launched. > > > So, can Frostwire be packaged? Yes. What you really mean is will can Debian distribute those packages as part of main (or at least, non-free). That's probably a question for debian-legal, but it depends *a lot* on the content of EULA.txt and how flexible upstream is about changing it. The advertisement window is not strictly forbidden, IIRC. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.