Paul van der Vlis <p...@vandervlis.nl> wrote: > Hello Miriam, > > Op 24-03-15 om 21:05 schreef Miriam Ruiz: >> 2015-03-24 20:04 GMT+01:00 Paul van der Vlis <p...@vandervlis.nl>: >>> Op 24-03-15 om 18:38 schreef Paul R. Tagliamonte: >>> >>>> Unless it allows modification and redistribution of this (and we do so), >>> >>> What when the DD who packages it, would package it with the 5 user >>> limitation? >> >> If the 5 user limitation is a requirement, then the license is >> definitely not DFSG-free (and, also, they would have to figure out how >> to manage the contradiction between this limitation and the AGPL). >> Depending on the license, it might go to non-free, though. > > The 5 user limitation is something in the software, but because it's > AGPL it's not forbidden to remove it. But I think the developer would > ask friendly to remove a version without the limitation from Debian.
If anyone actually used the software, I think the limitation would be quickly removed. As a historical example, xpdf, as distributed by the developer, prevented copy and paste from documents that were marked read-only. The Debian maintainer removed that feature. Cheers, Walter Landry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150324.142756.427512270065426951.wlan...@caltech.edu
