Re: EADL license

[Hendrik Weimer]

Walter Landry  writes:

> Florian Weimer  wrote:
>> 
>> Debian is also available in Europe, where the U.S. government is not
>> barred by U.S. law from obtaining and enforcing copyright of its
>> works.  Europeanl law also has copyright-like protections for certain
>> collections of facts.
>
> In practice, Debian already distributes these kinds of works.

Sure, but this is not necessarily an active decision, it could also
result from a lack of awareness of the legal situation.

Hendrik

Re: "Use as you wish" license

[Paul Wise]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Roberto wrote:

> I have not found any previous discussion about those licenses so asking
> here seem to be the right thing to do, if that is not the case, can you
> please point me the correct steps, should I ask ftpmasters directly or
> there is another mailing list you think more appropiate?

Contacting them directly seems to be the way to go.

Personally I would not interpret "use" as including
modification/distribution; despite being a software developer I still
mainly interact with software by using it in the traditional
non-developer sense.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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