On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:41:55PM +0100, Steffen Moeller wrote: > Hello Göran, > > where does the license say that I am not allowed to do modifications?
The default of copyright law doesn't allow you to do very much with the software. So to distribute modified versions of the software, you need a license that allows that. mssstest's license does not say that it is allowed, so therefore it is not allowed. I just noticed a more severe problem with this license: it doesn't allow distribution of binaries. You can work around that by changing the package so that the user builds the binary package themselves, like the qmail-src package. > The change to roxburgh.cpp refers to the line that claims Borland to have > compiled the package that I commented out. > The changes to the Makefile are of similar $(DESTDIR)-like severity. > Upstream is happy with the Debian package. All that I have done was to > adapt the source for that process. I have not modified the source in > order to change the functionality. And from what I read the license is > not in the way even of doing that. Then I'm sure you can ask upstream for permission to distribute the modified source and the resulting binaries. > I do not see any bug. Btw, I don't think your message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] made it to the BTS. Regards, -- Göran Weinholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer, sysadmin, netadmin
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