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Re: [gNewSense-users] licenses


From: Edi Granado
Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] licenses
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:04:26 +0200

hi,

> 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.

I agree

as far as i can see take a decision in gNS very long... I think we
need a software validity specification or the like.

> 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

thanks Kevin, i will remove the package from the suspected non-free list.

Edi


On 8/29/07, Kevin Dean <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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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