On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Ben Finney <[email protected]<ben%[email protected]> > wrote:
> Joachim Wiedorn <[email protected]> writes: > > > So there is only on step to do: Move d4x into the non-free archive. > > Take care: The fact that a work is non-free does not mean the Debian > project has license to redistribute it in the ‘non-free’ section. Many > works are so non-free that they cannot be legally redistributed at all > by the Debian project. > This part of the license seems to answer that question pretty clearly: /* WebDownloader for X-Window * * Copyright (C) 1999-2002 Koshelev Maxim * This Program is free but not GPL!!! You can't modify it * without agreement with author. You can't distribute modified * program but you can distribute unmodified program. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. */ ie; Not even a Debian Maintainer can modify the software to package it. So this software looks like a non-starter for inclusion in Debian, even in non-free. -- Chris
