[licence] specific licenses for backdoor-factory software
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 8:45 PM, Philippe THIERRY wrote:
> The main tool is based on the following license file (LICENSE.txt) :
This is almost identical to the 3-clause BSD license, the only change
is s/university|regents/copyright holder/
> You may not redistribute aPLib without all of the files.
May violate DFSG item 3.
> You may not edit or reverse engineer any of the files (except the header
> files and the decompression code, which you may edit as long as you do not remove
> the copyright notice).
May violate DFSG item 5.
> You may not sell aPLib, or any part of it, for money (except for charging
> for the media).
May violate DFSG item 6.
> - Is the main software legaly acceptable for Debian ?
The 3-clause BSD license is a very common DFSG-free license.
> - Do i need to clean the upstream (deleting aPlib dir) making a dfsg package
> or the upstream can be kept in the source package untouched if the aPlib is
> not installed in the bin packages ?
If you want the source package in Debian main, it must be fully
DFSG-free. So your options are to either put the whole thing in
non-free, strip the aPlib dir or convince the aPlib copyright holders
to release it under a DFSG-free license.
--
bye,
pabs
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