> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: > > > Anyway, chances are, that anyone who sells Slackware CD's with gs-aladdin > > 4.03 > > on it gets sued (read the copyright on gs-aladdin), so that's the reason > > it doesn't get included with debian: it's non-free. > > no, that's definitively wrong. The license allows *explicitly* the > distribution with a CD (I read it).
I've done so, and many other people on debian-devel. It says: (ii) Distributing the Program on a CD-ROM, provided that the files containing the Program are reproduced entirely and verbatim on such CD-ROM, and provided further that all information on such CD-ROM be redistributable for non-commercial purposes without charge. Yes, it allows distribution, but it puts the CD distributer in a very uncomfertable position, as he now has to check every package on the CD. I know that Slackware actually has several packages that are fishy in this respect, and thus I'm quite sure the gs-aladdin copyright owners could sue the Slackware CD manufacture: the copyright onwers just have to look for one programme on the CD that isn't freely redistributable (like an old version of bin86, but never mind that). > It's not allowed to sell a printer > as Postscript-Printer by adding gs to it without the commercial > license. OK, sorry, I didn't read that much of the licence. If that's ture then that's another reason to make it non-free, indeed. > That's the reason for non-free. Now, here I _know_ you are wrong: I was the one who originally asked on debian-devel wheter gs-aladdin should go into non-free or main, and in the (long) discussion that followed, that point about printers wasn't raised. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .