Hello again, I sent upstream an email asking for the permission. To me this is all a bit strange, distracting myself and upstream from the real work we need to do; however the lawsuit between SCO and IBM is strange, too, so I should feel thankful for your help.
Sorry for the premature -wontfix-thingy. This was rude. I felt stressed. Steffen On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 05:18:13PM +0100, G?ran Weinholt wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:41:55PM +0100, Steffen Moeller wrote: > > Hello G?ran, > > > > 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, > > -- > G?ran Weinholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Debian developer, sysadmin, netadmin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
