Bug#20914: Seyon's copyright.

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Igor Grobman wrote:
>   Seyon is Copyright (c) 1992 of Muhammad M. Saggaf. Seyon is not
>   public domain. Permission is granted to use and distribute Seyon
>   freely for any use and to sell it at any price without reference to
>   the copyright owner provided that in all above cases Seyon is intact
>   and is not made part of any program either in whole or in part and
>   that this copyright notice is included with Seyon. Permission is
>   also granted to modify the source as long as the modified source is
>   not distributed.
> 
> ======================================================================
> 
> The way I read it is we can't distribute the binaries, because there is no 
> explicit permission to distribute binaries from modified source.  Also, 
> depending on how you read it, we can't even distribute it as a source package, 
> because there is no explicit permission to do that either.

So long as we distribute a pristine .orig.tar.gz, we are not distributing
modified source.

I'm afraid you're right about binaries.

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