Re: hevea licencing problems
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:05:27PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:41:16AM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:56:12AM +0100, Samuel Mimram 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? Should this
> > > package be moved to non-free?
> >
> > Frankly, I did not follow the discussion about QPL during the summer.
> > Is there really a *consensus* that all QPL-licenced software is not
> > DFSG-free?
>
> Nope, but Xavier and the ocaml team decided to drop the choice of venu clause
> (which may be illegal anyway, at least in french law), and the QPL 6c, so
> debian-legal was happy. I suggest that hevea upstream does the same thing too.
I just had a look at the ocaml package. The changelog.Debian says
ocaml (3.08.1-1) unstable; urgency=high
* Dropped QPL 6c qnd choice of venue clause from the QPL licence.
However, /usr/share/doc/ocaml/copyright still contains clause 6c and
the venue clause. Where is the modified ocaml licence?
-Ralf.
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