Bug#602250: typo3-src-4.3: jsmin.php is non-DFSG
Am 03.11.2010 01:25, schrieb Simon McVittie: It was written by Geoff Stearns, author of SWFObject, so if Quicktime is still relevant, he'd probably be willing to re-release this script under the same license as SWFObject (which is MIT). I wrote an email to him and this was his answer : Yes, I should have added the MIT license to it, though keep in mind it's really really old code and may not even work that well these days... Hi Geoff, i'm the debian maintainer of typo3 and now faced with a license problem with your qtobject code. typo3 includes this module but your license is not free enough for debian. i got the following bugreport: On closer inspection, typo3/contrib/flashmedia/qtobject is non-free by omission (no explicit permission to distribute modified versions), but probably intended to be free software: There are no usage restrictions on this file, feel free to distribute this code and associated files. I want to ask you if you could rerelease this code under a license, that is on this list of dsfg compatible licenses: http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#TheBigDFSG-compatibleLicenses Thank you in advance. Sure this doesn't suffice to be a license change, does it? I asked him to change the license more offically on his website and now i'm waiting for some reply. -- MfG, Christian Welzel GPG-Key: http://www.camlann.de/de/pgpkey.html Fingerprint: 4F50 19BF 3346 36A6 CFA9 DBDC C268 6D24 70A1 AD15 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#602250: typo3-src-4.3: jsmin.php is non-DFSG
retitle 602250 typo3-src-4.3: jsmin.php has non-DFSG licence thanks On Mittwoch, 3. November 2010, Simon McVittie wrote: On closer inspection, typo3/contrib/flashmedia/qtobject is non-free by omission (no explicit permission to distribute modified versions), but probably intended to be free software: There are no usage restrictions on this file, feel free to distribute this code and associated files. No. non-free by omission doesnt exist, no usage restrictions is what counts and obviously includes the right to modify+distribute it, else it would be a usage restriction, d'oh. Compare also with the WTF licence, which only says do what the fuck you want with this software, which is a perfectly fine+free software licence. jsmin.php OTOH, if the licence still says as you said in this bugreport, is clearly non-free. cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
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Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: retitle 602250 typo3-src-4.3: jsmin.php has non-DFSG licence Bug #602250 [typo3-src-4.3] typo3-src-4.3: jsmin.php, qtobject.js are non-DFSG Changed Bug title to 'typo3-src-4.3: jsmin.php has non-DFSG licence' from 'typo3-src-4.3: jsmin.php, qtobject.js are non-DFSG' thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 602250: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602250 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#602250: typo3-src-4.3: jsmin.php is non-DFSG
Hi There are no usage restrictions on this file, feel free to distribute this code and associated files. No. non-free by omission doesnt exist, no usage restrictions is what counts and obviously includes the right to modify+distribute it, else it would be a usage restriction, d'oh. Compare also with the WTF licence, which only says do what the fuck you want with this software, which is a perfectly fine+free software licence. Plain wrong. modify/distribution is no usage, its modify / distribution. And thw WTFPL says much more than what you quoted, and that more is making it free. The text above is not. -- bye Joerg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
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Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: retitle 602250 typo3-src-4.3: typo3-src-4.3: jsmin.php, qtobject.js have non-DFSG licence Bug #602250 [typo3-src-4.3] typo3-src-4.3: jsmin.php has non-DFSG licence Changed Bug title to 'typo3-src-4.3: typo3-src-4.3: jsmin.php, qtobject.js have non-DFSG licence' from 'typo3-src-4.3: jsmin.php has non-DFSG licence' End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 602250: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602250 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#602250: typo3-src-4.3: jsmin.php is non-DFSG
Package: typo3-src-4.3 Version: 4.3.8-1 Severity: serious Justification: DFSG #6 No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor The jsmin licence says The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/09/msg00033.html and http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/06/msg1.html for why this is a problem. Regards, S -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#602250: typo3-src-4.3: jsmin.php is non-DFSG
retitle 602250 typo3-src-4.3: jsmin.php, qtobject.js are non-DFSG thanks On closer inspection, typo3/contrib/flashmedia/qtobject is non-free by omission (no explicit permission to distribute modified versions), but probably intended to be free software: There are no usage restrictions on this file, feel free to distribute this code and associated files. It was written by Geoff Stearns, author of SWFObject, so if Quicktime is still relevant, he'd probably be willing to re-release this script under the same license as SWFObject (which is MIT). Regards, S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
