A couple things, intent and what actually happens are two different things. According to Debian legal (as I linked above) it currently does not meet the DFSG which is the "expectation" it has to meet.
Regardless, I got a response from Luca and he is willing to re-license it under a established free software license which will meet the DFSG. He says he will release an updated tarball. I will ask him to possibly contact you when that is complete for re-packaging. On 09/11/2012 10:59 PM, Bdale Garbee wrote: > "Grant H." <sirgr...@member.fsf.org> writes: > >> After reviewing the copyright file[1] for the package yforth[2] I >> thought that it did not qualify as free software. > > Why do you say this? The intent of the author was clearly to be fully > permissive as long as attribution is retained. > > For a fairly random piece of software not updated since 1997, I think > your expectations for clarity are set way too high. > > Bdale > -- *Grant H. *Email: sirgr...@member.fsf.org *Ask me for my GPG key *I'm an FSF member -- Help us support software freedom! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
