[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#722134: Slidy licensing - independent (i.e. dual-licensed) or combined?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Rigo,

I am Debian developer, with a special interest in [Slidy].

Recently a [concern] was raised in Debian that the licensing terms of 
Slidy is not compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines.  Dave 
suggested that I ask you for advice.

Essentially the problem is ambiguity in this sentence:

> The slide show script and style sheet can be used freely under W3C's 
> [software licensing] and [document use] policies

It can be interpret as those policies two being logically OR'ed (i.e. 
dual-licensing), or logically AND'ed (i.e. multiple required licenses).

Question is therefore, if the correct interpretation of above is same as 
the following less ambiguate rephrasing:

> The slide show script and style sheet can be used freely under either 
> W3C's [software licensing] or [document use] policies

or instead the following less ambiguate rephrasing:

> The slide show script and style sheet can be used freely under the 
> combination of both W3C's [software licensing] or [document use] 
> policies


Kind regards,

 - Jonas


[Slidy]: http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy2/

[concern]: http://bugs.debian.org/722134

[software licensing]: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software

[document use]: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-documents

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