Freeness of licence for wwwcount?

2005-09-18 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, The package wwwcount used to be in non-free, and has been subsequently removed as it was orphaned. I've just had a read of the licence[1], and I can't actually see anything terribly wrong with it. Can someone with more licensing-fu than me please tell me what's wrong with it? I wouldn't

How to proceed with an ITP of questionably licensed software?

2004-06-10 Thread Andrew Pollock
[[ Please CC me on all correspondence, I'm not subscribed ]] Hi, I've filed an ITP (WNPP #252999) on some software that is licensed under the GPL. The source does not contain anything like a COPYING or LICENSE file or anything where the author asserts copyright over the work, or states that

Re: How to proceed with an ITP of questionably licensed software?

2004-06-10 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 01:02:08AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:40:20PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: [[ Please CC me on all correspondence, I'm not subscribed ]] Please set the Mail-Followup-To header to indicate this. Must learn how to do that in Mutt... Ah, E

Artistic licensed program building against OpenSSL

2004-05-05 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, [[ Please Cc me on replies, I'm not subscribed ]] I'm looking at packaging up elfsign, see WNPP #247427. This is licensed under the Artistic license, however uses OpenSSL's engine.h to build. Does this present any issues? regards Andrew signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#247427: ITP: elfsign -- ELF binary signing and verification utilities

2004-05-05 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:24:00PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: The original Artistic license is not appropriate for licensing anything that is not approximately perl, because of the way it is worded. It is a terrible license. Do not use it. It's also highly questionable as to whether

Re: Bug#247427: ITP: elfsign -- ELF binary signing and verification utilities

2004-05-05 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:24:00PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: The original Artistic license is not appropriate for licensing anything that is not approximately perl, because of the way it is worded. It is a terrible license. Do not use it. It's also highly questionable as to whether

Advice on DFSG status of this licence

2003-08-19 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, I'm considering packaging up RIPE's whois server, and the closest thing I can find to a licence in the source tarball is the contents of the COPYING file, at the end of this message. The only bit I'm unsure of is the last sentence. Does it mean we can't refer to it as the RIPE whois