On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 06:12:59AM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > >>The TwistedSNMP-0.3.13/license.txt reads: > >>THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT FAULT TOLERANT AND SHOULD NOT BE USED IN ANY > >>SITUATION ENDANGERING HUMAN LIFE OR PROPERTY. > > This is possibly problematic, depending on how you define "should". I'd > > take it as just being a restatement of the whole "no warranty, if it breaks > > you get to keep both pieces" thing, > > Yeah. Interestingly (as a side-note), I have read something like this > before. It's in the Windows License concerning the use of Sun's Java. I > think it means something like: "If you use this to steer an airplane and > that crashes, don't blame us - we warned you". Not very reassuring IMHO.
Practically, though, that's no less than you get with every other piece of software -- free or otherwise. > > but it could be read as forbidding use > > in the mentioned areas. > > ... which would be against the policy, right? Yes, it would discriminate against fields of endeavour, and hence fail DFSG #<mumble>. > Hmmm. I wonder if that > still could be packaged, and where to - contrib? non-free? The latter, I > suppose? If it doesn't pass the DFSG (but we can legally distribute it), then it goes in non-free. If it depends on non-free stuff, but is itself free, then it goes in contrib. So twisted-snmp would go in non-free, and the dependent application would go in contrib. I don't think that the clause is necessarily a problem, though -- it reads to me more like a slightly more emphatic no-warranty clause, rather than a prohibition against use in any particular field. > > As an aside, I've got packages of python-sybase floating around here > > somewhere. I never uploaded them to Debian because I have no interest in > > maintaining them long-term, I just whipped them up for a client one day. I > > can send them to you if you'd like (and possibly sponsor them into Debian if > > you want to maintain it yourself). > > That would be cool. Thanks for your kind offer. http://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/tmp/python-sybase_0.37* I don't guarantee a stellar packaging job -- it was a quick whipup for a client. It's not egregiously defective, though. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]