On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:31:33 -0500 Luke Faraone wrote: [...] > src/port/misc/config.c: [...] > > and cause the whole of any work that you distribute > > or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is a derivative of > > this program or any part thereof, to be licensed at no charge to > > all third parties on terms identical to those here. [...] > > The text "to be licensed at no charge" sounds like it forbids commercial > distribution.
Mmmmh, I am not too convinced. It says "licensed at no charge", not "distributed at no charge". Please compare with clause 2b of the GNU GPL v2: | b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in | whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any | part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third | parties under the terms of this License. It seems to be pretty equivalent... The license of src/port/misc/config.c looks like a not-too-strong copyleft (GPL-incompatible) license. I haven't spotted any DFSG-freeness issues. As far as the other additional violations (pointed out in message #10 [1]) are concerned, I have nothing to comment... [1] http://bugs.debian.org/699066#10 N.B.: I am not a maintainer of this package and I know nothing about it; I am just a debian-legal regular who happened to notice this RC bug... I hope my comment helps a little. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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