Pierre Gruet writes: > Hello, > > When working on igv (which is currently in non-free), I stumbled upon > the license [0] including the following: > > Sun grants you ("Licensee") a non-exclusive, royalty free, license to > use, and redistribute this software graphics artwork, as individual > graphics or as a collection, as part of software code or programs that > you develop, provided that i) this copyright notice and license > accompany the software graphics artwork; and ii) you do not utilize > the software graphics artwork in a manner which is disparaging to > Sun. Unless enforcement is prohibited by applicable law, you may not > modify the graphics, and must use them true to color and unmodified in > every way. > > I feel that the "disparaging to Sun" part is a blocker for including > the software in the main section. Do you agree? > And what about the last sentence?
This license has come up before. https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/08/msg00099.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/01/msg00631.html So, not free. > I am a bit concerned because a check in sources.debian.org shows some > software currently in main embed files with the "disparaging to Sun" > part. > > [0] > https://sources.debian.org/src/igv/2.6.3+dfsg-3/src/main/resources-jlfgr-1_0/LICENSE/ That sounds like a bug. Cheers, Walter Landry