Comment 16 for bug 13050

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:06:37 +0100
From: Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#289856: mdnsresponder: Wrong license

<email address hidden> wrote:

>Above and beyond the issue of distributing code without proper license
>notices, the APSL 2.0 is not, in the opinion of many (and AFAICT, according
>to the consensus of the debian-legal mailing list), a free license under the
Where "many" in this context should be read as "an handful of people on
the debian-legal mailing list who invented new rules which are not part
of the DFSG".

>Again, while the question of which parts of the license (if any) fail the
>DFSG is still somewhat open, the fact is that this license imposes a number
>of restrictions on the licensee which are not present in more traditional
>Free Software licenses. Now that it's known that this package is licensed
>under the APSL and not under a BSD license, I believe it's best to remove
>mdnsresponder from the archive until such a time as it's made available
>under a different license or there's a clear consensus that the APSL 2.0 is
>a DFSG-free license.
Do you suggest removing from the archive all packages whose licenses
impose uncommon restrictions or just this one?

--
ciao,
Marco