Gentoo Archives: gentoo-licenses

From: Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@××××××.org>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Cc: "Hanno Böck" <hanno@g.o>, gentoo-licenses@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-licenses] fastcgi license
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 16:07:15
Message-Id: 20150206160703.GA19339@helios.pault.ag
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-licenses] fastcgi license by Ulrich Mueller
1 (sorry for the intrusion; I lurk Gentoo devel lists because I think
2 Gentoo and Debian are similar :) )
3
4 On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 02:28:22PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
5 > But they label it as non-free:
6 > https://packages.debian.org/sid/libapache2-mod-fastcgi
7
8 Yeah; came here to say this:
9
10 | paultag@franck:~$ dak ls libapache2-mod-fastcgi -s unstable
11 | libapache2-mod-fastcgi | 2.4.7~0910052141-1.1 | unstable/non-free | amd64, i386
12
13 Still non-free as far as Debian is concerned.
14
15 > > Seems like at some point upstream changed their license:
16 > > http://www.fastcgi.com/drupal/node/6?q=node/14
17
18 This license does look DFSG free; if these are the terms that are
19 distributed with the source, we could likely move it to main.
20
21 > This seems to be identical with what we have in licenses/FastCGI ...
22 >
23 > > (before it had a clause that you could only use it to implement the
24 > > fastcgi protocol)
25 >
26 > ... and this one we have in licenses/mod_fastcgi.
27 >
28 > > The upstream project seems a bit dead. We're currently using a
29 > > source snapshot that is no longer available online (but probably
30 > > better than using the even older release code).
31 >
32 > > However I think we can change the license and have it in @free.
33 >
34 > Which of the two licenses is actually included with the sources?
35
36 ^ this
37
38 > Ulrich
39
40 Cheers,
41 Paul
42
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