Re: [gNewSense-users] licenses

[Kevin Dean]

A bug have ALREADY been raised on the Artistic license, I opened this
bug (#00099) when doing my PFV work... I've YET to receive any
official answer from Brian or Paul.

My opinion is that the ORIGINAL artistic license is non-free and all
works under that license should be removed. Debian Legal disagrees
which is why I raise the issue at all.

Regarding TeX I'd say this is almost exactly the same as Firefox. I
strongly believe that developers have the right to protect their brand
image, I just wish they'd remove such branding in upstream. We should
probably re-brand this as well.

In regard to the tex-common package, those files are under GNU GPL
version 2 or later.  "Unless otherwise indicated (see individual file
listing below), it is
covered by the following license, the GPL:

This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version."




On 8/29/07, Chris Andrew <address@hidden> wrote:
> Edi,
>
> Thanks for your email.  Can you consider raising bugs for these.  It
> is easy to close a bug, and better to do so if you suspect the
> software is non-free.  Additionally, I sent a link to the _suspected
> non-free_ page.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris.
>
> On 29/08/2007, Edi Granado <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have some question about our license policy.
> >
> > - The FSF think the Artistic License are not free because its to vague. What
> > is our opinion about this license?
> >
> > - The packages tetex-base and tetex-bin including files who are under the
> > TeX/MetaFont license wich they are freely modifiable but as long as the
> > resulting program is not called TeX or MetaFont. Is this license free?
> >
> > http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/t/tetex-bin/tetex-bin_3.0-27ubuntu1/copyright
> > http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/t/tetex-base/tetex-base_3.0-15ubuntu1/copyright
> >
> > - The package tex-common include files that have no license and only are
> > copyright.
> >
> > http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/t/tex-common/tex-common_1.9/copyright
> >
> >
> > Edi
> >
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