Le Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 04:19:12PM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's the zlib license (http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_license.html) > > with an extra clause forbidding some kind of commercial usage > > ("Neither this software nor any of its individual components, in > > original or modified versions, may be sold by itself"). I'm not really > > sure that it is DFSG-compliant. I'm CCing debian-legal to get other > > opinions on that. > > That is a similar clause to the one in the Open Font Library. Fonts > using the OFL have been accepted into Debian, so presumably the > ftpmasters would accept this licence.
Hi Paul If yes, please post a mail on [EMAIL PROTECTED], because I bet that many maintainers of non-free packages will be happy to make an upload to main. More seriously, this is obviously non-free, and would make serious difficulties for the distributors of Debian CDs. Consider that even software that allow redistibution for a fee but disallow profit are not accepted in main. Jack, I strongly recommend to contact Upstream and to expose some clear arguments in a kind and friendly style. "No commercial use" was invented in a past were people did not try to live from free software. Upstream may be sensitive to this, to the problem of redistribution, and might accept to relicense. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
