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From: "Hanno Böck" <hanno@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New license: nauty
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:33:50
Message-Id: 201010220233.23349.hanno@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New license: nauty by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 Am Friday 22 October 2010 schrieb Robin H. Johnson:
2 > It's DFSG non-free because it contains a restriction on use (that
3 > military item) and sale.
4 >
5 > We're good to have it in MISC-FREE ourselves, as redistribution and
6 > everything else is free.
7
8 Erh, no. MISC-FREE is for free and open source software and is more or less
9 the same as Debians free software guideline. That's the whole purpose of it.
10
11 It can go to BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE. If you wanna make a list of licenses that
12 are "more or less free with restrictions" (however you define that), I'm fine
13 with that, but I'd like to keep everything that's indirectly in the @FREE-set
14 to be just that.
15
16 --
17 Hanno Böck Blog: http://www.hboeck.de/
18 GPG: 3DBD3B20 Jabber/Mail: hanno@××××××.de

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Re: [gentoo-dev] New license: nauty Thomas Kahle <tomka@g.o>