On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Yeah, I think that's the case, its been discussed before: http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-ot/2006-01/001371.html
But legally, the way that it goes, is that licenses have to be explicitly produced by the respective copyright holders, so, when anyone says that GPL makes some other software «automatically» GPL'ed, that's not true : if there is a contradiction of licenses, distribution of the software is illegal until either party or both parties change their license in a way that doesn't make it conflict anymore.
That's an important point of the law, because it means that if an author doesn't want to cooperate, you can't act as if the software license was something else than what is stated : you really need explicit statements all along.
Thus PiDiP not only can't go in Debian's main (and sourceforge), it can't even go in Debian's non-free, and it's been like that continuously since at least 2005.
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