Bug#35510: marked as done ([OLD PROPOSAL] mirror license seems Debian-specific)
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From: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>
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Subject: mirror license seems Debian-specific
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Package: mirror
Version: 2.9-2
The copyright file for this package says:
Copyright =A9 1990 - 1998 Lee McLoughlin
Permission to use, copy, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted,
provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
supporting documentation.
Permission to modify the software is granted, but not the right to
distribute the modified code. Modifications are to be distributed as
patches to released version.
The above paragraph, by itself, would make the package non-free,
by point #3, "Derived Works" in the DFSG.
However, the author later says in the copyright file:
> [...]
> The above scheme is OK with me.
IMHO, either this is a Debian-only license or it is not.
If it is a Debian-only license, then this package is non-free, by point
#8, "License Must Not Be Specific to Debian" in the DFSG.
If it is not a Debian-only license, then it should be clearly written in
the license itself, not in a separate mail by the author, i.e. the
copyright file should read something like:
Permission to distribute the modified code is granted as long as the
unmodified code is distributed as well.
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From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
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Subject: Bug#35510: [OLD PROPOSAL] mirror license seems Debian-specific
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Well, this is not really a proposal by the looks of things.
If it's still an issue, it can be hacked out on -legal.
Closing this bug report.
Julian
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