"Grant H." <sirgr...@member.fsf.org> writes:

> A couple things, intent and what actually happens are two different
> things.

Of course I understand that.  But what bothers me in this and other
cases is that you're asserting that it fails the DFSG without explaining
*how* you think it fails the DFSG.  And I've been around long enough
that I helped *draft* the DFSG...

> According to Debian legal (as I linked above) it currently does
> not meet the DFSG which is the "expectation" it has to meet.

That's not at all how I read the contents of the thread you linked to.
Of course it would be easier if the software has a familiar license, but
the lack of that doesn't mean it's not DFSG compliant.

> 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.

Ok, fine.  It's certainly easy enough to update the package if/when he
does that. 

Bdale

Attachment: pgpaTyesgekmJ.pgp
Description: PGP signature

Reply via email to