On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Arand Nash <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are indeed several non-free items, ranging from CC-*-NC to All > Rights Reserved (a particular wincompat.h item, which is unnecessary, > but removing would mean modifying...) Bummer. > The "all content...open source friendly" mention is clearly non-true, so > I am simply ignoring that. You might want to ask them to remove that. > The way I am interpreting the license: > If you want to redistribute the data which would otherwise be > undistributable, you would need to do so under the "gratis-ware" clause > and include everything unchanged. ... > As of now I guess the data would need to be given special permission in > order to be redistributed in a packaged version (which I presume is hard > to do without changing it, regardless of what the license says about > "recompress...deb"). This I have already been told is OK, by upstream. > Basically that I as their "For the sake of argument" "release manager" > Would be allowed to release my packaging (i.e. modified version) under > the same terms as that of the upstream version. > I guess that this might at least fulfill requirements for non-free? Yeah, as long as Debian and our mirrors are able to distribute it that sounds fine. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
