Re: Cactvs-license

2001-09-17 Thread Walter Landry
Are there packages in non-free that have special permission for Debian? Do you know any of their names? I was worried about some practical problems, but am willing to be swayed by precedent. I believe Netscape 4.x is a prime example: Upstream provides binaries only. Only

Re: Cactvs-license

2001-09-17 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:44:50PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: So, are there any other packages that specifically mention Debian? ines. crafty has something comparable. But I'm not sure why an example is needed. non-free is for software which we can legally distribute but which doesn't meet

Re: Cactvs-license

2001-09-16 Thread Michael Banck
Hello again, On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:01:20PM -0500, David Starner wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:02:02PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: This is part of my distribution agreement with the university - I am not allowed to distribute the software to companies without a fee (which mainly

Re: Cactvs-license

2001-09-15 Thread Jakob B. Jensen
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:28:05AM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: However, you said that the author is resposive. At a minimum, I think that the paragraph The tool set can be distributed as part of other non-commercial program packages, but only in its original, unadapted form. If

Re: Cactvs-license

2001-09-14 Thread Walter Landry
However, you said that the author is resposive. At a minimum, I think that the paragraph The tool set can be distributed as part of other non-commercial program packages, but only in its original, unadapted form. If anybody is interested in providing the tools as integrated part

Re: Cactvs-license

2001-09-14 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:39:43PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: I don't think so. Does the author just provide one big, fat, executable? It sounds like there are other parts with an assumed directory structure. That would prevent you, for example, from putting documentation in a separate

Re: Cactvs-license

2001-09-14 Thread Michael Banck
Thanks for your answers! On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 09:07:24PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:39:43PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: However, you said that the author is resposive. At a minimum, I think that the paragraph The tool set can be distributed as part of

Re: Cactvs-license

2001-09-14 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:02:02PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: This is part of my distribution agreement with the university - I am not allowed to distribute the software to companies without a fee (which mainly goes to the university, and must be priced comparable to other commercial

Re: Cactvs-license

2001-09-14 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:28:05AM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: Are there packages in non-free that have special permission for Debian? Do you know any of their names? I was worried about some practical problems, but am willing to be swayed by precedent. I believe so, yes. However, I'm not

Cactvs-license

2001-09-13 Thread Michael Banck
Hello, I'd like to package CACTVS, a framework of chemical applications. (so far mostly a structure editor, but there aren't many decent of those around for Linux...) The license is clearly not DFSG-compliant, however, I'd like to know if I could even upload this to non-free: --- snip --- This

Re: Cactvs-license

2001-09-13 Thread Walter Landry
1. Commercial stuff is not allowed - I'd say this is the problem of the user to comply with? Correct. I believe there are a number of programs in non-free that have similar restrictions. 2. We can't modify the files. As they are binary only, this won't be much of a trouble. But can

Re: Cactvs-license

2001-09-13 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:39:43PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: However, you said that the author is resposive. At a minimum, I think that the paragraph The tool set can be distributed as part of other non-commercial program packages, but only in its original, unadapted form. If anybody