On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:51:49PM -0600, Josue Abarca wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:41:22PM +0200, Ricardo Mones wrote: > > Package: xpaint > > Severity: serious > > Justification: Policy 2.1.1 > > > > Hi maintainer, > > > > Some of the xpaint files fall under the following license [0] clause: > > > > " > > Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its > > documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted. > > " > > > > IOW, because the "and" the permission is only valid when you don't apply > > any fee, thus forbidding effectively selling any Debian CD with xpaint (for > > example). > > > > I'd suggest contacting upstream and try they reword this paragraph into > > something like "... for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted". > > > > regards, > > > > [0] > > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/xpaint/xpaint_2.9.1.4-3/xpaint.copyright > > > > Hello, thanks for the report. > > This seems to be a very common License clause in Debian[0][1] ... [7].
Indeed, unfortunately. > Please take a look to this thread in debian-legal@l.d.o: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/1999/08/msg00047.html > > from that thread: "It means without a fee (royalty) to the author > (copyright holder)." Well, didn't know that thread and is a good one. Nevertheless from that thread it's also clear that it's ambiguous and not really desirable... > I will change the severity to wishlist and try to get a clarification (by > email) from the copyright holder in order to improve the debian/copyright > file. ...so, I guess that's the way to go, thanks :) -- Ricardo Mones ~ Never send a human to do a machine's job. Agent Smith
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