* Walter Landry: " Re: SWIFTStandards IPR Policy" (Tue, 04 Jul 2023 09:39:49 -0700):
Hi Walter, thanks for your feedback. > Mathias Behrle <mbeh...@debian.org> writes: > > 2. License > > SWIFT hereby grants you a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to > > use or promote SWIFTStandards (i) for information transmission purposes in > > or outside the context of SWIFT messaging services and/or (ii) to develop > > software, products or services which support transmission of information in > > accordance with SWIFTStandards. > > This feels funny. It does not allow users to use SWIFTStandards to > advocate against SWIFTStandards. As written, you can not even use it to > improve the standard. Users also can not use it in unexpected ways, > such as an art piece. > > > 3. Limitations > > You may not directly or indirectly sell SWIFTStandards. You may not modify > > SWIFTStandards while maintaining “SWIFTStandards” as a reference for the > > modified standard. This License Agreement does not grant you a license to > > use any of SWIFT’s trademarks, except the trademark “SWIFTStandards” for > > the use as defined in Section 2. > > I think this would preclude putting SWIFTStandards on a DVD and selling > it. It is not directly selling SWIFTStandards, but it is indirectly > selling it. > > So I do not think it passes the DFSG. I agree. > It would be suitable for non-free. IANADD. IANAL. YMMV. I am even not sure if the package qualifies for non-free because the files in question are currently distributed by Tryton upstream *without* resp. under a *wrong* license. The feedback on the issue is unfortunately poor https://foss.heptapod.net/tryton/tryton/-/issues/12304#note_300126 I think I will move to a dfsg package excluding those files and disabling the tests (which is obviously a pity). Cheers, Mathias -- Mathias Behrle PGP/GnuPG key availabable from any keyserver, ID: 0xD6D09BE48405BBF6 AC29 7E5C 46B9 D0B6 1C71 7681 D6D0 9BE4 8405 BBF6