On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 03:55:56PM +0200, Dalibor Topic wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > >Notice that we already accepted a CDDLed program in debian, namely the star > >packages which comes with this clause : > > > >9. MISCELLANEOUS. > > [snip] > > > The application of the > > United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale > > of Goods is expressly excluded. > > [snip] > > That's my favourite bit of lawyerese in MPL-derivative licenses. > > I wish they had expressly excluded the sharia law on software licenses > as practised by the late Taleban ruling Kandahar.
So, is this non-free or not ? > >So, i wonder why it was accepted, if it was non-free. But maybe we just > >passed > >it up silently and didn't notice ? Who was the ftp-master responsible for > >letting this one enter the archive, and can he comment on this ? > > I guess it was a mistake. So, we need either to get back the old star version, or somehow kick the whole thing out of debian and into non-free ... > star used to be under the GPL, and then Joerg Schilling changed the > license to CDDL. The respective change was at > http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/star/news/4.html and the license change > did not seem to have been discussed on debian-legal. The discussions on > CDDL in 2005-01 seem to have petered out inconclusively. ... but before taking such actions, we should probably decide on the CDDL. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
