I was about to ITP icoutils (http://www.student.lu.se/~nbi98oli/src/), but I had a last-minute worry about the licence. It's mostly GPL, except that some files in the source are distributed under the Wine licence. Most of this seems to be OK (largely BSDish with no advertising clause), but I'm concerned about section (3) of the first paragraph. I initially read it as one set of conditions under which one could distribute in source or binary-only form, and that the set of conditions in the second paragraph would be the ones that would apply to Debian. However, the second paragraph only mentions sources, and we distribute binaries too. Is this something which would bar us from distributing icoutils?
The current version of Wine in Debian carries the X11 licence, so if this turned out to be a problem then perhaps I could just create a new source package with those newer include files instead (or, better, talk to the upstream author about it). Here's the copy of the Wine licence included in the icoutils sources: You may without charge, royalty or other payment, copy and distribute copies of this work and derivative works of this work in source or binary form provided that: (1) you appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice; (2) faithfully reproduce all prior copyright notices included in the original work (you may also add your own copyright notice); and (3) agree to indemnify and hold all prior authors, copyright holders and licensors of the work harmless from and against all damages arising from use of the work. You may distribute sources of derivative works of the work provided that (1) (a) all source files of the original work that have been modified, (b) all source files of the derivative work that contain any party of the original work, and (c) all source files of the derivative work that are necessary to compile, link and run the derivative work without unresolved external calls and with the same functionality of the original work (``Necessary Sources'') carry a prominent notice explaining the nature and date of the modification and/or creation. You are encouraged to make the Necessary Sources available under this license in order to further the development and acceptance of the work. I'd appreciate any opinions you might have on this. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
