[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#724947: [orthanc] Non free file

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

It does not allow modification. Not free
Le 30 sept. 2013 09:43, "Sebastien Jodogne" <s.jodogne at chu.ulg.ac.be> a
écrit :

> On 09/30/2013 12:23 AM, bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>
>> Package: orthanc
>> Severity: serious
>>
>> FPL is non dfsg: it does not allow modification.
>> Please move to non-free/repackage.
>>
>
> Dear Bastien,
>
> Thanks for your bug report. I am the upstream developer of Orthanc [1].
>
> I am unsure that the FPL you refer to is the same as the FPL of the SHA-1
> package by Paul E. Jones that is shipped with Orthanc [2]. Here is the
> content of the FPL from SHA-1:
>
> "Copyright (C) 1998, 2009
> Paul E. Jones <paulej at packetizer.com>
>
> Freeware Public License (FPL)
>
> This software is licensed as "freeware."  Permission to distribute this
> software in source and binary forms, including incorporation into other
> products, is hereby granted without a fee.  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS
> IS' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
> LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
> PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  THE AUTHOR SHALL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES
> RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY,
> INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED
> INACCURATE."
>
>
> This looks to me like a permissive MIT license. I have always thought that
> this license is compatible with the FSF philosophy. This is evidently not
> the same license as the so-called Foundation Public License by Bridgethink
> (also nicknamed FPL), which is indeed incompatible with the Debian Free
> Software Guidelines [3].
>
> If you do confirm that the FPL of the SHA-1 package is incompatible with
> Debian policy, I will immediately switch to another library (Orthanc 0.6.2
> is to be released this week). I will most probably use boost::uuid if this
> change is required.
>
> Regards,
> Sébastien-
>
> PS: I also forward this mail to the "debian-legal" mailing list.
>
>
> [1] http://packages.debian.org/**sid/orthanc<http://packages.debian.org/sid/orthanc>
> [2] https://code.google.com/p/**orthanc/source/browse/**Resources/sha1/<https://code.google.com/p/orthanc/source/browse/Resources/sha1/>
> [3] http://www.libroscope.org/FPL-**la-licence-libere-l-argent<http://www.libroscope.org/FPL-la-licence-libere-l-argent>(in French only)
>
>
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