Ciaran Farrell <[email protected]> writes: > On 12/01/12 13:52, Paul Wise wrote:
> > Either [OpenSUSE] don't care about the legal issues or they have a > > special license to distribute. > > The latter is correct, […] Paul Wise <[email protected]> writes: > Does that mean Debian also has permission to distribute? Given that “that latter” is presumably referring to “OpenSUSE have a special license to distribute”, then it's worth pointing out that (as Paul is probably aware) Debian's guidelines for free software are explicitly crafted to reject such special licenses. DFSG §8 reads: 8. License Must Not Be Specific to Debian The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's being part of a Debian system. If the program is extracted from Debian and used or distributed without Debian but otherwise within the terms of the program's license, all parties to whom the program is redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the Debian system. So, OpenSUSE's special license to this work doesn't help Debian. Only a general license for all recipients can be used. -- \ “Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future.” | `\ —Niels Bohr | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
