On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 03:57:01PM +1000, Ian Maclaine-cross wrote: > Hi Bill, > Thank you for your bug report #533027 on package tth's current > license.txt. > > Email file debian/hutch in the tth source package covers Ian > Hutchinson's acceptance of the packages and debian/ihutch also covers > why the later packages are still non-free. I believe this > correspondence clarifies license.txt.
Hello Ian, In that case they should referenced in the debian/copyright file. The current license.txt text is meaningless, because it does not clearly grant the right to redistribute the software, so in some way the file debian/hutch is a grant of permission, specific to Debian, to redistribute "provide the entire distribution is included.", which is fine as far as Debian non-free is concerned, but this certainly belong to debian/copyright. I think upstream should be asked to clarify the following: 1) are verbatim copy allowed ? 2) are redistribution of verbatim copy allowed ? 3) are modification allowed ? 4) are redistribution of modified copy allowed ? 5) are redistribution of modified copy allowed subject to restriction ? As you note, this will not make the software DFSG-free but at least the licensing conditions will be clear. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
