Ok, I am contacting the original author of this code, to see if he is willing to make a change. The code was written in 1990 or so, and he may not have been aware of the consequences of his actions.
Annoying that the "Small print" appeared so far down in the file and was missed during the original licensing checks. I will investigate if ferret-vis can be built without this, just in case. regards Alastair (Maintainer of xgks and ferret). On 2013-01-27 11:50, Francesco Poli wrote: > 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. > -- Alastair McKinstry , <alast...@sceal.ie> , <mckins...@debian.org> http://blog.sceal.ie Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist - Kenneth Boulter, Economist. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
