"Medhamsh" <[email protected]> writes: > The upstream of adminer released it under Apache-2.0 but this third > party code has the Expat license text and after that another one-liner > which reads, > > “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.”
This violates the DFSG §6. By declaring some fields of endeavour off-limits, the licensor is not granting the freedoms required for all Debian users. As Paul Wise refers to in a linkes article, the clause is uselessly vague and creates the effect that the recipient *can't know* whether what they are doing is copyright violation. It's needlessly adding confusion to an already confused issue. > The author is not willing to change that line. I want to have the > advice regarding this issue. The best advice, given the refusal of JSmin upstream to change to a clearly free license, is to drop the dependency on JSmin. Ideally, work with your upstream to make the work fully functional without that library. -- \ “Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so | `\ why should they care about it?” —Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG, 2006 | _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]
