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Re: hevea licencing problems



On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:17:40AM +0100, Remi Vanicat wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 00:56:12 +0100, Samuel Mimram
> <samuel.mimram@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Argh!
> > 
> > Having a look at this problem I dicovered that hevea was under the QPL
> > which is generally considered as non-free if I remember correctly the
> > events of this summer concerning OCaml. Sven, I'm I correct? 
> 
> The last version of the QPL is free, it is the licence of KDE (or at
> least of the underliying library) and of the OCaml compiler.

One latest than the one i had to flamewar on debian-legal lengthily a few
months back ? The problematic clauses where the choice of venue and the QPL 3c
if i remember well.

> > Should this package be moved to non-free?
> 
> Nop.

I agree, but debian-legal may disagree.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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