Compliance with DFSG

2014-03-07 Thread Anirudha Bose
I want to package Cling, an interactive C++ interpreter built on the top of LLVM and Clang libraries, developed and used at CERN. This is a link to the License file of Cling: https://github.com/root-mirror/root/blob/master/interpreter/cling/LICENSE.TXT Due to my lack of knowledge in this, I

Re: Compliance with DFSG

2014-03-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Anirudha Bose wrote: This is a link to the License file of Cling: https://github.com/root-mirror/root/blob/master/interpreter/cling/LICENSE.TXT For the record, here is the license text:

Re: Compliance with DFSG

2014-03-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Paul Wise wrote: For the record, here is the license text: To me this looks like a BSD-3-clause and LGPL-2.1 dual license. The project is therefore probably DFSG-free. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Compliance with DFSG

2014-03-07 Thread Ben Finney
Anirudha Bose ani07...@gmail.com writes: Due to my lack of knowledge in this, I would like to know if Cling is fully compliant with the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) so that I can proceed ahead with packaging it for the Debian archive. Thank you for working to improve Debian, and for

Re: Compliance with DFSG

2014-03-07 Thread Ricardo Mones
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 08:02:49PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Anirudha Bose ani07...@gmail.com writes: [...] Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: For the record, here is the license text: == Cling Release License

Re: Compliance with DFSG

2014-03-07 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 20:02:49 +1100 Ben Finney wrote: [...] I would recommend the copyright holder should: [...] * Correct the LGPL text to match the GNU LGPL 2.1 exactly, as the license on that text requires. I would add that, if the grant is really a dual-licensing scheme (that is to

Re: Compliance with DFSG

2014-03-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Francesco Poli wrote: After all, the 3-clause BSD license is way more permissive than the LGPL and does not include any restriction not present in the LGPL. As a consequence, I would say that offering the LGPL as a second choice is totally moot, once you have