On 23-Nov-01, 13:31 (CST), Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A DFSG-free package must allow modification and must say so in its > license. I'm not sure I share the opinion about what you should do > about the problem. I'd suggest contacting the copyright holder and > trying to get explicit permission to distribute modified versions and > to modify the software.
And since the permission you get cannot be Debian specific[1], it is effectively a request to have the program re-licensed. > If you fail to get that permission you will need to move the software > into non-free. If you fail to get permission, we probably can't distribute it all, unless the Debian diff.gz does not touch the original jove source code at all. Steve [1] If it is, the program still has to go into non-free. -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
