(Cc'ing the bug report.)
Re: Steve Langasek 2006-07-24 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
from pgapack's debian/copyright:
This program contains material protectable under copyright laws of the
United States. Permission is hereby granted to use it, reproduce it,
to translate it into another language, and to redistribute it to
others at no charge except a fee for transferring a copy, provided
that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy the
University of Chicago's copyright notice, and the disclaimer of
warranty and Government license included below. Further, permission
is hereby granted, subject to the same provisions, to modify a copy or
copies or any portion of it, and to distribute to others at no charge
materials containing or derived from the material.
This means that (unmodified) copies of pgapack may not be sold at cost
more than the medium it is shipped on, and worse, we are not allowed
to charge anything for modified versions.
Aren't there other licenses with this feature which we consider free? E.g.,
isn't the seldom-used Artistic License one of them?
| 5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this
| Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this
| Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However,
| you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly
| commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial)
| software distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package
| as a product of your own. You may embed this Package's interpreter
| within an executable of yours (by linking); this shall be construed as
| a mere form of aggregation, provided that the complete Standard
| Version of the interpreter is so embedded.
Imho the important difference is that the Artistic License allows
charging for copies of modified versions. Furthermore, without the
exception on aggregate collections, it sounds rather problematic to
sell boxed versions of Debian including pgapack.
Christoph
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