On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:47:55PM -0300, Wagner Bruna wrote:
> --- Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
> > > Particularly, "public use" needs clarification:
> > > "Copyright 1989 by Georgia Tech Research
> > > Corporation, Atlanta, GA 30332.
> > > All Rights Reserved. GTRC hereby grants public
> > > use of this software."
> > Neither I nor the ftp-team see a problem with that.
> AAUI, if the copyright notice only grants "public use" of the software,
> it's not conforming with DFSG guidelines ("The license must not restrict
> anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor.").
> As it is phrased, the license does not explicitely grant unrestricted use,
> so the package at least should not be in main.
Your reading of this clause is not the plain English reading of it. "public
use" does not mean "use in public", in means "use by the public" -- i.e.,
"use by anyone".
If this was the only problematic clause, I agree there's no problem here. I
assumed, based on the bug report you submitted, that there was an issue with
the license not permitting /modification and distribution/, rather than use.
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