On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:18:45AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > I am interested in gsview which is famous in Windows users > and a kind of ghostview or gv. But I am not sure if its license > permits us to upload to Debian or not.
Why do you want to package it? It's not like it fills a need that can't be filled with free software. > GSview is copyright by Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd. > GSview is distributed with the Aladdin Free Public Licence. > This licence is contained in the file /usr/share/doc/gsview/LICENCE Fine for non-free. > pstoedit is Copyright by Wolfgang Glunz and is licensed with > the GNU Public Licence (GPL). Binaries are included in > GSview with the permission of Wolfgang Glunz. Fine. (GPL is fine as long as it's not linked with non-GPL. This is a seperate binary, so it's all right.) > GSview uses pstotext in an external DLL. pstotext was written by > Andrew Birrell and Paul McJones. It is > Copyright (C) 1995-1996, Digital Equipment Corporation. > See the licence in pstotext.txt or pstotext.zip for more details. > (3) The Software may not be transferred to any third party > unless such third party receives a copy of this Agreement and agrees > to be bound by all of its terms and conditions. This is the only part that seems non-free. If I read this right, it's a restriction on distribution Debian can't satisfy even in non-free; we would have to make sure anyone we distributed to agreed before we gave them a copy. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org
