Hi Matt & list, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 06:12:59AM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: >>>> The TwistedSNMP-0.3.13/license.txt reads: >>>> THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT FAULT TOLERANT AND SHOULD NOT BE USED IN ANY >>>> SITUATION ENDANGERING HUMAN LIFE OR PROPERTY. >>> This is possibly problematic, depending on how you define "should". I'd >>> take it as just being a restatement of the whole "no warranty, if it breaks >>> you get to keep both pieces" thing, >> Yeah. Interestingly (as a side-note), I have read something like this >> before. It's in the Windows License concerning the use of Sun's Java. I >> think it means something like: "If you use this to steer an airplane and >> that crashes, don't blame us - we warned you". Not very reassuring IMHO. > > Practically, though, that's no less than you get with every other piece of > software -- free or otherwise. > >>> but it could be read as forbidding use >>> in the mentioned areas. >> ... which would be against the policy, right? > > Yes, it would discriminate against fields of endeavour, and hence fail > DFSG #<mumble>. > >> Hmmm. I wonder if that >> still could be packaged, and where to - contrib? non-free? The latter, I >> suppose? > > If it doesn't pass the DFSG (but we can legally distribute it), then it goes > in non-free. If it depends on non-free stuff, but is itself free, then it > goes in contrib. So twisted-snmp would go in non-free, and the dependent > application would go in contrib. > > I don't think that the clause is necessarily a problem, though -- it reads > to me more like a slightly more emphatic no-warranty clause, rather than a > prohibition against use in any particular field.
Yes, I see it like this, too. Henning Makholm said that all 3 licenses were BSD-like, and so they're ok for us. But I wasn't sure, that's why I addressed debian-legal before doing any packaging. So what should I do in this case? Contact the upstream and ask him/her to change that license? Or do we accept this? I'll leave that open to discussion here for the moment. Thanks and cheers, wjl aka Wolfgang Lonien -- Key ID 0x728D9BD0 - public key available at wwwkeys.de.pgp.net Key Fingerprint = A923 2294 B7ED EB3E 2F18 AE56 AAB8 D36A 728D 9BD0 uid Wolfgang Lonien (wjl) <like: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> We prefer encrypted, text-only email messages here. Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
