[gNewSense-users] Status of the (Unclarified) Artistic License in gNewSense

[Kevin Dean]

I've opened a bug marked "Major" that can be found
http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00099

The status of the Original Artistic License is unclear in gNewSense.
Debian considers this license to be Free under the DFSG, but the Free
Software Foundation believes it is ambiguous because of wording and
has determined it to be non-free.

This is not to be confused with the Modified or Clarified Artistic
License which the FSF and Debian both consider to be Free Software.

The resolution of this bug, either way, may impact at least one other
bug containing potential non-free software in gNewSense and applies to
bug #00001 (gNewSense Contains Non-free Software).

-Kevin Dean