Hi Tomasz,
My mistake, it is the QPL license that was originally used. As I said
before, it was already in the archive when I adopted it. Ilooked on the
https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses
page and it still lists QPL v1.0 as unsettled. In any case, I suppose I
caould ask Bill Chang whether he would consider changing his license to an
MIT license or something else. It looks like the biggest concern is for
libraries though and this package does not provide any libraries.
Carlo
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014, Tomasz Buchert wrote:
Hi again Carlo,
If the license is the one here: http://bourbon.usc.edu/tgif/copyright.html
then the situation is even worse than with QPL:
"[...] and its documentation for *not-for-profit* purpose"
(emphasis is mine).
This is non-free: https://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html#no_commercial
So either:
1) the license is QPL and in this case the situation
is a bit ambiguous (but maybe it is ok, IANAL),
2) or the license is "royalty-free" and then tgif is
obviously non-free
Tomasz
On 22/11/14 15:10, Carlo Segre wrote:
Hi Tomasz:
I am referring to the page below.
http://bourbon.usc.edu/tgif/download.html
he calls it free-of-charge butit is a license which was qualified as
acceptable when tgif was first put in the archive, before I adopted it.
If it is now not acceptable, perhaps it would be a good idea to discuss it
with the author who, in my experience, has been very willing to accomodate
my requests.
Carlo
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014, Tomasz Buchert wrote:
Hi Carlo,
I'm trying to fix https://bugs.debian.org/768690 and
I stumbled upon this bug. It seems to me that Mejiko
is actually right - even debian/copyright mentions that
code is under QPL. What is this "DFSG compatible license"
that you are talking about?
Cheers,
Tomasz
On 10/04/12 02:52, Carlo Segre wrote:
I beg to differ. There are two different versions of tgif. One is
licensed QPL and the other have a DFSG compatible license. The Debian
package has been built from the non-QPL licensed code and non-DFSG bits
have been removed with the cooperation of the upstream author.
It has been so for more than a decade and therefore will stay in main.
Carlo
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, mejiko wrote:
Package: tgif
Severity: normal
Hello.
Tgif license is "Q Public License" version 1.0 .
This license is not DFSG-Free. (e.g libcwd)
Suggests:
1. Tgif move to non-free.
2. remove Tgif.
Thanks.
References:
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/t/tgif/tgif_4.1.45-3/tgif.copyright
http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Q_Public_License_.28QPL.29.2C_Version_1.0
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/06/msg00131.html
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages tgif depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy
ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii libc6 2.11.3-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libice6 2:1.0.6-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
tgif recommends no packages.
tgif suggests no packages.
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