On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:03:52 -0400 Joe Smith wrote: > > "Francesco Poli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >The license you quoted is definitely non-free, because of the many > >restrictions it contains: it fails DFSG#1 and DFSG#3, I would say. > >You should try contacting the copyright holders (AT&T, Christopher W. > >Fraser, and David R. Hanson) and persuading them to relicense lcc in > >a DFSG-free manner. > > I suspect that this would be virtully impossible as AT&T would > probably have difficulty > finding the relevent documents, having the corporate lawyers, aprove > the relicencing, > and finally reciving offical approval.
Nothing is virtually impossible, as long as people are actually willing
to do it.
OK, leaving high-sounding sentences to fortune(6), what I mean is: if
Heretik succeeds in persuading the involved people, then the paperwork
can be done and a happy ending can follow.
>
> >If you fail in doing so, you should try to find a DFSG-free
> >replacement for lcc.
>
> We already have one: gcc. I have not taken a close look at the package
> but I suspect it is only using some auxillary tools from lcc.
> If this is indeed the case, then a replacemnt for those tools will
> need to be found.
> It is entirely possible that debian already contains replacements for
> these tools.
Since I don't know what are these lcc tools that are used in the
Tremulous build process, I cannot tell if DFSG-free replacements are
already in Debian.
Someone more knowledgeable than me will be able to answer, I hope.
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:-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-)
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