Source: conserver Severity: wishlist Since filing #931365 I discovered that due to the lack of an explicit modification permission in the license on code owned by Ohio State University, this package is in Debian non-free. I discussed this in various places and I have concluded that the license is free for several reasons and that it should be moved to Debian main.
* There is an implicit modification permission in the anti-endorsement clause in the license. * The BSD license authors updated the original BSD license to include an explicit modification permission, indicating the initial lack of explicit modification permission was an unintentional mistake and corrected this when it was pointed out to them. * The author of the affected conserver code intended to allow modifications and believes the existing license implicitly allows modifications. * There are several packages in Debian main (inc Linux, GCC etc) using the same license that caused this package to be in non-free. https://github.com/bstansell/conserver/blob/master/LICENSES.md https://www.conserver.com/pipermail/users/2019-July/msg00000.html https://www.conserver.com/pipermail/users/2019-July/msg00001.html https://www.conserver.com/pipermail/users/2019-July/msg00002.html https://www.conserver.com/pipermail/users/2020-May/msg00001.html https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/a8259f8fb4348c790076ffcaf8721ecba7c714a3.ca...@debian.org https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/caktje6gyyvhyvo0rvo-4bslcoofr2zn3e-0sgmtegr7+j7w...@mail.gmail.com -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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