Am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2012 schrieb Ben Finney: > Martin Steigerwald <[email protected]> writes: > > On packaging fs_mark I found > > > > 8 * Copyright (c) 2000 Carl Staelin. > > 9 * Copyright (c) 1994-1998 Larry McVoy. > > > > 10 * Distributed under the FSF GPL with > > 11 * additional restriction that results may published only if > > 12 * (1) the benchmark is unmodified, and > > 13 * (2) the version in the sccsid below is included in the report. > > No version of the GPL is specified. That's often taken to mean “whatever > version you, the recipient, choose”. I don't know how well that would > hold up if challenged. > > These additions are not compatible with the GPL which, in GPLv3 §10 says > “You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the > rights granted or affirmed under this License.” > > > Is this restriction DFSG compliant? > > It's not only not compliant with the DFSG; it's not compliant with the > GPL itself. So the recipient has no effective grant of license to > redistribute. > > I hope you can contact upstream and notify them that the terms do not > grant effective license to any recipient, and encourage them to remove > those additional restrictions.
Okay, so it couldn't even be distributed in non-free, when I understand this correctly. I will try to find out mail addresses of the upstream authors and contact them. Thanks, -- Martin Steigerwald - teamix GmbH - http://www.teamix.de gpg: 19E3 8D42 896F D004 08AC A0CA 1E10 C593 0399 AE90 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
