Hi Steffen, On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 04:25:21AM +0100, Steffen Moeller wrote: > > I have looked at the licence and I really can't find anything non-free. The > > advertising clause is a pain in the ass, but as far as I know it is DFSG. > The advertisement clause was a problem I had. Another problem was that I did > not get where the termination of the two clauses came from that prohibit the > distribution for commercial purposes. I googled for it and also found it with > the ANL site http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/openpbs/PBS_License.txt from which I > interpret that the termination can be trusted. > > I insist that we shouldn't drop this to non-free without an official > > ftp-master statement, be it an IRC comment, a reply to a mail discussing > > the topic, or via a REJECT message. > There is some old thread about it > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg22673.html which > ends with no real conclusion. > > One can probably argue that the license can be interpreted in a DFSG > compatible manner. Once having reached that state, I can indeed follow you in > your suggestion to upload as DFSG compatible. Morten, am I/are we missing > something?
Thanks for re-considering. I'll try to merge my changes from the Ubuntu branch to trunk, so we can go ahead and finally upload 2.4.x to Debian, and see what ftpmaster thinks. Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
