Bug#393753: Commercial demo in Debian?
Cc: info@codeweavers.com - please see below.
2006/10/31, Baruch Even <baruch@debian.org> wrote:
Hi,
I don't think it is appropriate for Debian to carry a commercial demo in
its archive, not even in the non-free which is officially not part of
Debian. Any other commercial program in the non-free archive is a full
program and not time-limited, in addition it will provide the right to
distribute it, if there is no distribution right the program will only
have an installer package.
I respectfully disagree. :-) There is no rule against time-limited
demos in non-free.
The demo is provided in a shell archive and there is no license when you
download it. The embedded license does allow distribution but under some
specific terms which I'm not sure we can comply with.
Dear Sir/Madam at CodeWeavers Inc.,
My name is Jason Spiro and I am working to encourage the Debian
GNU/Linux project to include a time-limited demo of CrossOver Linux in
the Debian package repository. This will make it possible for Debian
users and some Ubuntu users to simply type "apt-get install
crossover-demo" in order to install it. I believe this will be a boon
for the popularity of your product.
We are unsure if the license agreement for the product allows Debian
to redistribute the package from the Debian servers. Are you willing
to work with us to help us get a demo version of CrossOver into
Debian?
Please carbon-copy your reply to 393753@bugs.debian.org.
Kind regards,
Jason Spiro
jasonspiro4@gmail.com
Note: I do not officially represent the Debian Project whatsoever. I
am merely a Debian user.
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