[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#800025: ginkgocadx: selling restrictions on Gingkgo CADx's license

[Luís Picciochi Oliveira]

Package: ginkgocadx
Version: 3.7.0.1465.37+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Hi,


When starting Ginkgo CADx for the first time, I was shown the license of the
program. On it, the following snippet is included:

«This software musn't be sold without prior approval of the authors.

(...)
Ginkgo CADx is licensed under the LGPL v3 license. You can find the legal terms
of the license at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html »

You can also see this text by going to the Help > About > Licenses screen.


I wonder if restricting selling to the approval of authors is valid for LGPL v3
licenses.

I skimmed through the LGPL and GPL and couldn't find anywhere saying it is (nor
that it isn't).
However, this seems fishy. Anyway, who are the "authors"? The original authors
of the program? The authors of any derived work?
I suggest this should be cleared up by Debian with upstream.


Thank you and best Regards,
Luís Picciochi



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
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  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages ginkgocadx depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.19-18+deb8u1
ii  libcairo2                 1.14.0-2.1
ii  libcurl3-gnutls           7.38.0-4+deb8u2
ii  libdcmtk2                 3.6.0-15+b1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.2-10
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  10.3.2-1+deb8u1
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.25-3
ii  libinsighttoolkit3.20     3.20.1+git20120521-5+b1
ii  libjsoncpp0               0.6.0~rc2-3.1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.7.1-1+deb8u1
ii  libssl1.0.0               1.0.1k-3+deb8u1
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.2-10
ii  libvtk5.8                 5.8.0-17.5
ii  libwxbase3.0-0            3.0.2-1+b1
ii  libwxgtk3.0-0             3.0.2-1+b1

ginkgocadx recommends no packages.

ginkgocadx suggests no packages.

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