--- Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
> > Particularly, "public use" needs clarification:
> > "Copyright 1989 by Georgia Tech Research
> > Corporation, Atlanta, GA 30332.
> > All Rights Reserved. GTRC hereby grants public
> > use of this software."
>
> Neither I nor the ftp-team see a problem with that.
AAUI, if the copyright notice only grants "public use" of the software,
it's not conforming with DFSG guidelines ("The license must not restrict
anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor.").
As it is phrased, the license does not explicitely grant unrestricted use,
so the package at least should not be in main.
Could you please explain why this isn't the case anymore? And IMHO this
clarification should be in the copyright file itself, since the package
was removed before for licensing issues.
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287083
>
> Refers to the long removed 5250 code.
It also includes discussion about the "public use" issue.
> > And according to 3270's maintainer (Richard A
> > Nelson), those licensing issues are still unsolved:
>
> There is no sign in the 3270 code, that Richard A
> Nelsen is maintainer in any way.
Well, there is another source package of this code (since oldstable, at
least), maintained by him:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/3/3270.html
And its copyright file states:
"This is why x3270 is in non-free, not main: * All the licenses are
normal, and used by standard Debian packages, except for the original
Georgia Tech Research Corporation on the software (...) Clarification is
needed on what GTRC consider to be 'public use.'"
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/3/3270/3270_3.2.17-2/copyright
Thanks,
Wagner
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