Re: Is the APSL 2.0 DFSG-compliant?

2022-08-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 10:49:05AM +, Stephan Verbücheln wrote: >On Fri, 2022-08-05 at 10:31 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> That's not a restriction, though. It's *not* saying "you may not use >> this software for XXX", it's saying "this software is not intended >> for XXX". There's quite

Re: Is the APSL 2.0 DFSG-compliant?

2022-08-05 Thread Stephan Verbücheln
On Fri, 2022-08-05 at 10:31 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > That's not a restriction, though. It's *not* saying "you may not use > this software for XXX", it's saying "this software is not intended > for XXX". There's quite a difference there IMHO. To me it sounds like a more explicit “No

Re: Is the APSL 2.0 DFSG-compliant?

2022-08-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Mihai wrote: > >* On 8/5/22 01:09, Ben Westover wrote: >> Those are based on conversations that are almost a decade old, and some >> things have changed since then. I just wanted a re-review of the license >> in 2022 to see if the complaints from before still hold up today. > >I can see how the

Re: Is the APSL 2.0 DFSG-compliant?

2022-08-05 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 8/5/22 01:09, Ben Westover wrote: > Those are based on conversations that are almost a decade old, and some > things have changed since then. I just wanted a re-review of the license > in 2022 to see if the complaints from before still hold up today. I can see how the outcome of, e.g.,

Re: Is the APSL 2.0 DFSG-compliant?

2022-08-05 Thread Stephan Verbücheln
On Fri, 2022-08-05 at 08:25 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I wouldn't put any weight on the presence of the APSL 2.0 license > text > in the archive, probably it got into Debian in those packages due to > lack of copyright/license review rather than deliberate acceptance, > especially since it is in

Re: Is the APSL 2.0 DFSG-compliant?

2022-08-05 Thread Stephan Verbücheln
> Interesting, the APSL 2.0 is seen in some relatively important > packages like Chromium and QtWebEngine. What code is exactly under that license? As far as I know, WebKit itself (which Chromium is a fork of) is licensed under LGPL (KDE code) and 2-clause BSD (Apple code). In your example of