On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:47:55PM -0300, Wagner Bruna wrote:
> --- 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.
You have to explain why "public use" is restricted.
> 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:
Well, this is neither a statement from the ftp-team, nor from me, nor
from upstream.
Bastian
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