This is very similar to what DJB allows for qmail. It will land the package in non-free.
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 03:43:16PM -0400, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > Here's the final licence for KDrill 5.8. I hesitate a bit for > putting in non-free or main. For sure, we can distribute it because > of a) [I don't make other modifications myself]. But I'm not sure > about c) which intend to allow distribution of packages like us > (original source+patches) but not explicitely allow modified binaries. > IMHO, this make it non-free, isn't? > > extract from LICENSE: > =========================================================================== > Sigh. the legal stuff just gets messier and messier. > I, Philip Brown, am now writing my own license again. > > "The Program" in this document refers to kdrill, (c) 1991-1999 > > "{A/the} distribution" refers to the full contents of a tar file, or > other archive, used by me to distribute the program from my ftp or web site. > > The overall purpose of this document is to declare: > > "This is MY program. I care about what happens to it. Don't mess me around > or I'll sue your butt" > > Now on to the nice stuff. > > You, or anyone else, is free to use the program whenever, and however they > like for themselves, for no charge. > > I make no warantee, implied or otherwise, as to the safety, bugfreeness, or > anything else, of this program [etc, etc]. > That being said, if you TELL ME about a bug, I'll try to fix it :-) > > REDISTRIBUTION: > > You may redistribute the program in any of the ways below, without charge: > > a) A binary-only compilation of an unmodified distribution from > ftp.bolthole.com. > Adjustments to the Imakefile, or X resource file > are not considered modifications. > You must provide a noticable message that the full source code is > on ftp.bolthole.com, and that I am the original author. > > b) Full source code [binaries optional] > You may choose to provide source modifications, and binaries based > on those modifications. However, the original program distribution must > be present, in its entirety, unaltered, along with your files. > > c) A set of patches to an unmodified distribution. > You do not have to provide the distribution, just a pointer > to ftp.bolthole.com, and a notice that I am the original author. > =========================================================================== > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Fabien Ninoles GULUS founder > aka Corbeau aka le Veneur Gris Debian GNU/Linux maintainer > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WebPage: http://www.callisto.si.usherb.ca/~94246757 > RSA PGP KEY [E3723845]: 1C C1 4F A6 EE E5 4D 99 4F 80 2D 2D 1F 85 C1 70 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]