Bug#379568: ITP: scatterchat -- gaim clone with encryption and anonymity enhancements

[Christian Hammers <ch@debian.org>]

On 2006-07-24 Christian Hammers wrote:
> * Package name    : scatterchat
>   Version         : 1.0.1
>   Upstream Author : jtesta@hacktivismo.dot.com
> * URL             : http://www.scatterchat.com/
> * License         : GPL
>   Description     : gaim clone with encryption and anonymity enhancements

Sadly this is only half of the truth, scatterchat depends on a library called
scatterchat-module which is licensed under the 
  The Hacktivismo Enhanced-Source Software License Agreement
  /Version 0.1 HACKTIVISMO/cDc 2002/

This license tries to combine the GPL with ethical/humanistic constrains
like:
  10. Use Restrictions: Human Rights Violations Prohibited.
which are, as far as I understand them, absolutely incompatible with the
following DFSG points:
  5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
     The license must not discriminate against any person or group of
     persons. 
  6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
     The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a
     specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program
     from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

The author has been contacted and asked to relicense it.

bye,

-christian-