On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 12:23:01 -0700 Lawrence Rosen wrote: [...] > As long as Debian continues its reasonable -- indeed commendable! -- > procedures for the distribution of FOSS software, nobody on the AFL 3.0 > bandwagon will complain.
Peter, thanks for starting to deal with this bug. However, asking for clarifications to the license author is not necessarily helpful: the reply you obtained from L. Rosen clarifies *his own* interpretation of one unclear clause of the AFL v3.0. This interpretation, despite being somewhat authoritative, does not necessarily equal how the *copyright holders* of debian/contrib/svn_load_dirs interpret the same clause! If you want to fix the licensing status of debian/contrib/svn_load_dirs, I think you should get in touch with its *copyright holders*, rather than with the author of the license they adopted. And while you are at it, given the various other issues with the AFL v3.0, I strongly recommend you to try and persuade the copyright holders to re-license debian/contrib/svn_load_dirs under clearly DFSG-free terms (such as the Apache License Version 2.0, for instance)... Thanks for your time. Bye. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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