Bug#258417: ITP: helix-player -- Helix Player is the Helix Community's open

[Rob Lanphier <robla@real.com>]

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 13:16, Brian M. Carlson wrote:
> On Friday 09 July 2004 15:12, Thomas Maurer wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > * Package name    : helix-player
> >   Version         : 1.0 (gold release this summer, currently beta)
> >   Upstream Author : Helix Community <dev@player.helixcommunity.org>
> > * URL             : http://player.helixcommunity.org
> > * License         : Dual-licensed RPSL/RCSL (soon GPL)
> 
> This license is non-free. Please only package the GPL version. Search 
> the -legal archives for information.

For what it's worth, whether the RPSL is "free" is still an open
question.  Moreover, there's no clause in the DFSG which the RPSL
violates.

That said, we went with the GPL so that we wouldn't have to spend very
expensive legal time with this debate.

Rob
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