16 Sep
2003
16 Sep
'03
11:43 a.m.
Hi list,
mlang(a)delysid.org wrote:
[..]
P.S.: For those of you interested, the Drums++
license
explicitly states that distributions are only allowed
to distribute Drums++ unmodified. Such a clause is
not a really good idea, since distributions usually have
to cope with User bug reports, and they also fix those bugs if
possible. This license explicitly forbids this behaviour,
and is therefore not acceptable, at least for Debian.
Just curious - have you already tried asking the author if he would
consider changing the license accordingly? There have already been a lot
of programs where the author (often unknowingly) chose a non-DFSG
compliant license, but when asked to correct it, did so quickly so that
his application could be adopted into the Debian pool.
Greetings,
Frank