Re: Torque in Debian?
Hi Steffen,
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 04:25:21AM +0100, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> > I have looked at the licence and I really can't find anything non-free. The
> > advertising clause is a pain in the ass, but as far as I know it is DFSG.
> The advertisement clause was a problem I had. Another problem was that I did
> not get where the termination of the two clauses came from that prohibit the
> distribution for commercial purposes. I googled for it and also found it with
> the ANL site http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/openpbs/PBS_License.txt from which I
> interpret that the termination can be trusted.
> > I insist that we shouldn't drop this to non-free without an official
> > ftp-master statement, be it an IRC comment, a reply to a mail discussing
> > the topic, or via a REJECT message.
> There is some old thread about it
> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-legal@lists.debian.org/msg22673.html which
> ends with no real conclusion.
>
> One can probably argue that the license can be interpreted in a DFSG
> compatible manner. Once having reached that state, I can indeed follow you in
> your suggestion to upload as DFSG compatible. Morten, am I/are we missing
> something?
Thanks for re-considering. I'll try to merge my changes from the Ubuntu
branch to trunk, so we can go ahead and finally upload 2.4.x to Debian,
and see what ftpmaster thinks.
Jordi
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