-=| Gabor Szabo, Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:08:43PM +0200 |=- > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:34 AM, <jeffrey.ratcliffe@gmail.com> wrote: > > Would I be correct in assuming that the following copyright[1] does not > > adhere to the DFSG: > > > > You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public > > License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file, > > with the exception that it cannot be placed on a CD-ROM or similar media > > for commercial distribution without the prior approval of the author. I think this fails DFSG#6 (No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor). > > [1]http://search.cpan.org/~lbaxter/Sys-SigAction-0.10/lib/Sys/SigAction.pm > > [2]http://search.cpan.org/~rybskej/forks/lib/forks.pm > > I think the work done by the Debian Perl group is awesome in both the terms of > integration AND in terms of getting checking the licenses of the modules. > > I'd recommend sending a polite e-mail to the author asking him if that > restriction could be relaxed for Debian specifically No-no. That would fail DFSG#8 (License Must Not Be Specific to Debian). "Polite" is very important. If you are in doubt, send a draft here and/or debian-legal for comments. > or better yet for everyone in general. This is obviously much better (and what almost all CPAN authors use). -- dam JabberID: dam@jabber.minus273.org
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