On 16-Apr-2016, Stephen Kitt wrote: > I'm not convinced this is non-free. The only troublesome clause I > see is the requirement to mention Zarf's name and the URL; but that > isn't less free than say the zlib license AFAICS... Am I missing > something? I mis-parsed the text of those license conditions; it appeared to explicitly deny redistribution of modified versions. Reading it again today, I see that it subsequently grants all the necessary permissions, conditional only on retaining an attribution notice. This works fine for software freedom; it seems ‘cheapglk’ is free software under a non-standard license. The ‘glk-dev’ code base is partly non-free (CC By-NC-SA-3.0), but software freedom is explicitly granted in ‘dispatch_dump’, the component needed for building ‘infglk.h’. So there appears to be a path – work carefully to get those parts packaged for Debian as build dependencies for ‘infglk.h’. None the less, I would like the current “6.12+dfsg.1-1” release of ‘inform6-library’ in Debian, because it works fine without ‘infglk.h’ (that is provided only as a convenience) and is now free software. The file is not needed for any of the advertised features of the package; the library already contained support for producing Glk output since before version 6.12. I have compiled some example Inform 6 source to Glulx story files without that file. Between omitting the file because it lacks corresponding source, and delaying to get the build dependencies for this convenience file, I would rather do the former for now. -- \ “Special today: no ice cream.” —mountain inn, Switzerland | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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