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Bug#389525: dcc: non-free beginning from version 1.3.0



On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:32:28AM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> Package: dcc
> Version: 1.3.42-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: violating DFSG §5 and DFSG §6
> 
>      * This agreement is not applicable to any entity which sells anti-spam
>      * solutions to others or provides an anti-spam solution as part of a
>      * security solution sold to other entities, or to a private network
>      * which employs the DCC or uses data provided by operation of the DCC
>      * but does not provide corresponding data to other users.
> 
> This is definitly non-free. It looks like you did not read my orphan
> message, where i said:
> 
> > DCC's upstream decided to change it's license to non-free according DFSG
> > with version 1.3.0 stating:
> 
> > "The Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse source carries a license that is
> > free to organizations that do not sell filtering devices or services
> > except to their own users and that participate in the global DCC
> > network."
> 
> > If you intend to take that package, please consider moving it to
> > non-free, as upstreams license is non-free according to DFSG §6.

  oh right, I totally missed that excerpt, sorry about that. I've
reworked the debian/copyright and looked the license statement as a
standard BSD. *g* I should open my eyes better.

  next upload will go to non-free obviously.

-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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