Alessandro Rubini <rub...@arcana.linux.it> writes: > This is exactly like the kind request to send patches to the upstream > author, or the kind request to make a donation or otherwise support > the project.
With the significant difference that (as it has been described to us) the work embodies a concrete restriction on its use. So no, not “exactly like” those kind requests which do not limit recipients of the work. > I don't see anything especially bad in a 5-users limitation. It's a > bug like a million other limitations we have. With the significant difference that the copyright holder has expressed a positive desire that the bug not be fixed. The OP has said: > 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. Since the copyright holder expresses the desire that the work not be in Debian with bugs fixed, that is a strongly negative consideration for that work entering Debian at all. -- \ “The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things | `\ without evidence.” —Thomas Henry Huxley, _Evolution and | _o__) Ethics_, 1893 | Ben Finney -- 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/85y4mc1hdy....@benfinney.id.au
