[Pkg-gridengine-devel] spinbox license

[Afif Elghraoui]

Hello,

على السبت  2 كانون الثاني 2016 ‫02:52، كتب Wouter Verhelst:
> Hi Afif,
> 
> (sorry about the late reply here, busy with other things...)
>>
>> The first condition there is not being followed, and the second one
>> looks non-free to me.
> 
> I agree, but only because it is worded as a requirement. In doing so, it
> fails the dissident test[1]. While the dissident test is not a part of
> the DFSG, it does mean it fails DFSG#1 (free redistribution) and DFSG#3
> (derived works) in that there are requirements set forth for such
> redistribution or derivation that the DFSG does not allow.
> 
> Given the rationale that appears at the end of the requirement, however,
> (it's "only to satisfy the author's curiosity"), I suspect he may be
> willing to change the license so that this requirement is changed into a
> (possibly strongly-worded) request; e.g., something along the lines
> of...
> 
>     if you use this widget, the author would like to be informed about
>     such use by email.
> 
> This way, it is not a requirement, and therefore can be ignored for
> purposes of the DFSG, which would no longer make it non-free.
> 
> While the bit about non-modification is explicitly allowed by DFSG#4,
> non-adherence to that still matters; otherwise, gridengine isn't
> following the license as written, and that *also* isn't allowed for
> inclusion into Debian...
> 

Ok, that's what I thought. This is mostly an upstream issue. The most
severe outcome for us is that we exclude qmon from the gridengine package.

Thanks for clearing this up
Afif

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