Bug#98676: License of Squeak: Request for some clarifications.
[was previosly CCed to bugs.d.o, but got lost when master was down]
Hello,
My name is Stephen Stafford and I am a Debian GNU/Linux maintainer. I
am in the process of packaging Squeak (a smalltalk implementation) for
inclusion in our distribution and am writing to ask for some
clarification of some licensing issues. I have attached the license
for your convenience (The file "LICENSE").
For a piece of software to be included in our distribution it must
meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) which I have also
attached for your convenience (it forms the second part of the file
"social-contract.txt")
In particular this license is not free (in the DFSG sense) due to
clause 2 which would appear to disallow modification of the fonts in
the package and/or the redistribution of said fonts seperate from the
pacakge. This is not a bar to our distributing the package however as
we have a section called non-free which allows for the distribution of
software which does not quite meet the DFSG.
There is also clause 6 which appears to me at least to be redundant in
that if you are under the jurisdiction of the United States then you
would not be allowed to export to these countries anyway, and if you
are not in that jurisdiction then it does not apply. This clause makes
it necessary for the package to go into another part of our
distribution entitled non-us (which has a subsection non-free, so it
would in fact be put into non-us/non-free).
Neither of these clauses (2 and 6) are a bar to packaging and
distributing the Squeak software for us. Clause 5 however may be,
which is why I am contacting you in order to gain clarification on this
matter.
Clause 5 *could* be interpreted to mean that as a redistributor that
we would or could be held liable for any and all costs incurred by you
if one of our users decided to take legal action against Apple. This
*would* be a bar to our distributing this software. It could also be
read to mean "If you decide to take us to court then you would have to
pay our legal fees as an end user" in which case it would not be a bar.
I am hoping that you could provide some clarification for me upon this
matter as I believe that the Squeak software would be a valuable
addition to our distribution.
There has been some talk on one of the squeak related mailing lists of
removing the Apple fonts from the software and relicensing it as GPL.
I am unsure as to how this is progressing if it is at all. Relicensing
it as GPL would mean that I could package it for the main distribution
without having to be concerned about putting it into non-us/non-free.
This would make the package available to a far larger percentage of our
users. The relicensing of squeak as GPL would be a good thing as far
as I am concerned.
I thank you very much for your time in this matter and I hope that we
can together bring this software to our users with a minimum of fuss.
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Stephen Stafford
bagpuss@debian.org
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