Your message dated Sat, 25 May 2013 01:39:48 +0300 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#709656: zoo: DFSG Violation => zoo was released in PD 2004 has caused the Debian Bug report #709656, regarding DFSG Violation to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: zoo Version: 2.10 In reviewing the file zoo.c I see "noncommercial use permitted." Can we take this to mean they're not allowing commercial use? I believe not allowing commercial use would be in violation of section 1 of the DFSG in which "the license of a Debian component may not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software." In reviewing the Copyright file I see that modified versions are permitted but not anything that "violates the compatibility goals." I believe this to be a violation of section 3 of the DFSG which state that I should be able to modify the software. Section of the DFSG should be read that people must have the ability to make an incompatible fork of the software, or doesn't have the same goals as the original developer. Otherwise the ability to modify software would be severely hindered.
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--- Begin Message ---| Version: 2.10 | In reviewing the file zoo.c I see "noncommercial use permitted." Can (...) | violation of section 1 of the DFSG in which "the license of a Debian | component may not restrict any party from selling or giving away the | software." zoo was released into Publid Domain in 2004. Recorded in debian/copyright: License: public-domain Zoo was written by Rahul Dhesi. He has now released it into the public domain: . Return-Path: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:50:26 -0700 (PDT) From: [email protected] To: Niklas Vainio <[email protected]> Subject: Re: License of Zoo . Hi, the last release of the zoo archive program was marked entirely public domain, with no restrictions. I'm sure this statement will be found somewhere in the files in the sources. If not, I hope this email will suffice: everything in the zoo package is entirely public domain, with no restrictions whatsoever. . Rahul
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