Hi folks-- More notes about licensing for opie:
looking at http://www.inner.net/pub/opie/test/ it appears that an update to 2.4.1-test1 was made only two weeks ago (the -fixes.diff has a datestamp of 2010-01-16), removing the NOT FOR REDISTRIBUTION flags in the files, from cmetz according to the diff headers. So some (minor?) upstream activity does appear to be happening. the 2.4.1 tarball contains the inverse problem from the one described in http://bugs.debian.org/511582#15 -- the source code contains scattered references to the Inner Net license version 2 and version 3, but only the full text of version *3* appears to be included in the package. Arguably, we do have version 2 from the previous packages, though. maybe that can break the licensing logjam here? Note that version 3 of the license seems better than version 2 (no more OpenSSL-style advertising requirements, for example). Hopefully this is useful in thinking about the future of the package, if people are still interested in keeping it in the archive. Maybe there's some way to take advantage of the brief attention from upstream? Regards, --dkg
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