msntp license
Hi all, the msntp package is marked in debian as being GPL2, while in reality it is licensed according to the confusingly named General Public Licence for the software known as MSNTP. Excerpt from the license: 1. You may distribute MSNTP or components of MSNTP, with or without additions developed by you or by others. No charge, other than an at-cost distribution fee, may be charged for copies, derivations, or distributions of this material without the express written consent of the copyright holders. 2. You may also distribute MSNTP along with any other product for sale, provided that the cost of the bundled package is the same regardless of whether MSNTP is included or not, and provided that those interested only in MSNTP must be notified that it is a product freely available from the University of Cambridge. This is certainly not the GNU GPL and it even seems somewhat non-free to me. Am I overlooking something? Regards, Jakub Drnec -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/23369.984.2152-14696-719125683-1267528...@email.cz
Re: Re: msntp license
Dear Jakub, good catch, the package is not free. I would add that its upstream homepage is not available anymore, and that his maintainer does not seem to be active either. Unless somebody steps up to care of msntp in non-free, I would rather recommend removal. No package depend on msntp, and its popcon vote score is around 20 for a while. Would you like to file the request for removal ? http://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan Hi, reading through the document's Who are you? section I don't think I fit into any of the cathegories. I will file a bug against msntp. Regards, Jakub Drnec -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/23385.999.1999-22661-1464868178-1267532...@email.cz
Re: msntp license
Le 02/03/2010 13:27, jay...@email.cz a écrit : Dear Jakub, good catch, the package is not free. I would add that its upstream homepage is not available anymore, and that his maintainer does not seem to be active either. Unless somebody steps up to care of msntp in non-free, I would rather recommend removal. No package depend on msntp, and its popcon vote score is around 20 for a while. Would you like to file the request for removal ? http://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan Hi, reading through the document's Who are you? section I don't think I fit into any of the cathegories. I will file a bug against msntp. Regards, Jakub Drnec Hi, MIA maintainer agrees with this. Just drop msntp :) Regards, Adam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b8d0a09.9060...@le-vert.net
