Re: Bug#431883: dcraw license does not give permission to distribute modified versions or source alongside

2007-09-14 Thread Steve King
This is David Coffin's proposed license text for the next version of dcraw: No license is required to download and use dcraw.c. However, to lawfully redistribute dcraw, you must either (a) offer, at no extra charge, full source code* for all executable files containing RESTRICTED

Re: Bug#431883: dcraw license does not give permission to distribute modified versions or source alongside

2007-07-06 Thread Steve King
Package: dcraw Version: 7.02-1 Severity: serious On Thu, 05 Jul 2007, Steve King wrote: However I would appreciate it if the assembled masses of legal experts could confirm that they agree that this is the case. There's actually an even more fundamental problem with dcraw.c: /*

Bug#431883: dcraw license does not give permission to distribute modified versions or source alongside

2007-07-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 06 Jul 2007, Steve King wrote: You'll notice that we have no permission to distribute modified versions of dcraw.c as required by the DFSG. I don't agree with you here. It seems to me that we do have permission to distribute modified versions, provided source is included. The

Re: Bug#431883: dcraw license does not give permission to distribute modified versions or source alongside

2007-07-06 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 03:45:29 -0700 Don Armstrong wrote: On Fri, 06 Jul 2007, Steve King wrote: You'll notice that we have no permission to distribute modified versions of dcraw.c as required by the DFSG. I don't agree with you here. It seems to me that we do have permission to

Re: Bug#431883: dcraw license does not give permission to distribute modified versions or source alongside

2007-07-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 03:45:29AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Fri, 06 Jul 2007, Steve King wrote: You'll notice that we have no permission to distribute modified versions of dcraw.c as required by the DFSG. I don't agree with you here. It seems to me that we do have permission to

Bug#431883: dcraw license does not give permission to distribute modified versions or source alongside

2007-07-05 Thread Don Armstrong
Package: dcraw Version: 7.02-1 Severity: serious On Thu, 05 Jul 2007, Steve King wrote: However I would appreciate it if the assembled masses of legal experts could confirm that they agree that this is the case. There's actually an even more fundamental problem with dcraw.c: /* dcraw.c --

Bug#431883: dcraw license does not give permission to distribute modified versions or source alongside

2007-07-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007, Steve King wrote: The license against which you have raised a bug is not the one that covers the version that is currently part of debian. The appropriate license is here: Right, but the issues present in the current version of the license are also present in the