Benjamin Cutler wrote: > There's a piece of software called "acc" I'd like to package up and > possibly include in Debian (along with some other tools that complement > it, and are under seperate, DSFG-free licenses, so they're not an > issue), but the included licenses are problematic at best. I've attached > them below. The problem is that the first license is pretty obviously > complete bunk, because it sounds like a purchased program, not a piece > of source code released to the public. The second license seems to be > less restrictive, but it's pretty vague at the same time. I already > received one opinion that it's pretty much impossible to include this > with Debian because of the first license, but I'm wondering if anybody > has any advice on if this is the sort of issue that we could "dance > around", though I'm guessing it's not. Barring that, is there any way of > including this in Debian without receiving a new license from Raven? > I've already attempted to contact them with no luck.
It appears to me that the first attachment "eula.txt" is the license, and the second attachment "readme.txt" is just a readme file, which happens to contain a loose interpretation of the license by a non-lawyer. However, neither the original license nor the interpretation is a Free Software license. - Josh Triplett
