Subject: Re: Drums++ was: Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Gungirl Sequencer 0.1
From: Frank Neumann (Frank.Neumann_AT_st.com)
Date: Tue Sep 16 2003 - 16:28:03 EEST
Hi list,
mlang_AT_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
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