"brian m. carlson" <sand...@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 11:19:42AM +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> >* License         : other
> > - Thou shalt not claim ownership of unmodified materials.
> > - Thou shalt not claim whole ownership of modified materials.
> > - Thou shalt grant the indemnity of the provider of materials.
>
> This may be a problem.  I know in the past, clauses requiring
> indemnification were not allowed.  CCing debian-legal for discussion.
> Please follow up there.

What clauses requiring indemnification were not allowed?

As a counter-example, there are clauses requiring indemnification in
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/postfix/current/copyright
(under 4.  COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTION but still needs considering, to
avoid discriminating against a field of endeavour).

> > - Thou shalt use and dispense freely without other restrictions.

I think this licence is ambiguous and should be discouraged, but I
haven't identified any particular DFSG concerns with libio-pager-perl.

Hope that helps,
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