d ask upstream to clarify the license.
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/04/msg00136.html
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=258057
[3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/04/msg00139.html
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Niklas Vainio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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It seems they only released the source code into public domain, not data.
> It sounds like perhaps the maintainer of the package should email
> Jonathan Clark and get a clarification?
abuse-sfx has been orphaned so there is no maintainer to do that. So I will
do it.
- Nikke
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N
about original works with some
creativity in them. Computer-generated, seemingly random string of numbers
hardly is such a work.
- Nikke
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Niklas Vainio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ackages have a link to their license text in the package page.
Here's the text:
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/x/xzx/xzx_3.0.1-2/copyright
- Nikke
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Niklas Vainio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
debian-legal,
xzx's license forbids modification but we have a diff of over 30 kB. It
looks like it's undistributable in the current form. See bug 240941.
Please comment.
Thanks,
- Nikke
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Niklas Vainio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
placements and comments on whether some
packages should be either moved to main or removed completely because of the
license or what kind of changes to the license we could suggest to upstream.
The page is at http://www.iki.fi/nvainio/debian/non-free.html
- Nikke
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