On 14 Nov, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
>> For some reason RH stopped shipping Seyon after RH5.0 or 5.2, I don't
>> remember.
>
> A licensing issue was discovered that conflicted with Red Hat's Open Source
> policy. The author prohibits distribution of modified sources.
>
> Supposedly, the Debian Project has been granted some sort of wavier, but
> none of the source distributions for Seyon have any mention of this. I'm not
> exactly sure how that works. I think it violate the GPL's clause against
> further restrictions, actually. It certainly runs contrary to Debian's own
> DFSG. (Funny how Seyon gets in but KDE doesn't.)
>
Huhwhat? Seyon is GPL, and has been for a year and a half. From the
'copyright' file included in Debian's seyon package (verbatim, including
typos):
> As of May 1999, Muhammad M. Saggaf has given permission for seyon to
> be released and maintained under GPL (see /usr/doc/copyright/GPL):
>
> Dear Steve:
>
> I received your letter today (yes, I know it took a long time, it took a
> trip half-way around the world and then back to my current address in the
> U.S.). I share your view about license for Seyon, I think it is too
> restrictive, especially that I'm not actively maintaining it. The purpose
> behind that restriction was to prevent incompatible versions, really, but I
> don't think it was the correct way of doing that. You have my permission to
> modify the license (e.g. the GPL is just fine) and distribute the package
> with the new license.
>
> My very best wishes,
>
> -- M. Saggaf
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> For now I am the new upstream maintainer as well as the Debian
> maintainer for the swyon package. Upstream sources without the Debian
> patches will be made available shortly from sunsite.unc.edu (now
> better known as metalab.unc.edu), as above.
Your Debian flame last week was much better - this one has a faint odor
of FUD around it.
--
Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux
Technology Coordinator
Center for Educational Outcomes,
C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth College
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