Bug#509287: Please give opinion about "Bug#509287: afio: license is non-free"

2008-12-27 Thread k.holtman
Dear All, As the afio upstream maintainer I am currently working off-list with some people to clarify the background the afio license text, how and when it got updated and interpreted, and what were the historical intentions of the authors involved. We are making some progress. I expect that

Bug#509287: Please give opinion about "Bug#509287: afio: license is non-free"

2008-12-22 Thread Koen Holtman
Hi all, Few comments below... On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:00:16 +0100 Erik Schanze wrote: > > [...] > > I got a Bug against package "afio" because of licence problems. > > Please see http://bugs.debian.org/509287. > > > > There was already a similar Bug

Bug#509287: Please give opinion about "Bug#509287: afio: license is non-free"

2008-12-22 Thread MJ Ray
Erik Schanze wrote: > What should I do? > Have I move afio to non-free? Thank you for bringing this question to the list - I was going to do so, but had not found time yet. More seriously, the Lachman Associates licence doesn't give any permission to modify the software, does it? So, I feel we

Bug#509287: Please give opinion about "Bug#509287: afio: license is non-free"

2008-12-21 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:00:16 +0100 Erik Schanze wrote: [...] > I got a Bug against package "afio" because of licence problems. > Please see http://bugs.debian.org/509287. > > There was already a similar Bug 9 years ago that was closed, after one > person from this list gave his OK. > (http://lis

Bug#509287: Please give opinion about "Bug#509287: afio: license is non-free"

2008-12-21 Thread Florian Weimer
* Erik Schanze: > There is an ongoing discussion on a Redhat list > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449037 and they excluded > the package already. There is an other blog on > http://www.kernelplanet.org/fedora/ that gave a summary of the current > situation. I think the analysis

Bug#509287: Please give opinion about "Bug#509287: afio: license is non-free"

2008-12-20 Thread Erik Schanze
Dear debian-legal folks, I got a Bug against package "afio" because of licence problems. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/509287. There was already a similar Bug 9 years ago that was closed, after one person from this list gave his OK. (http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/1999/05/msg00162.html