[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#637430: Licensed only to individuals; not distributable by us?

[Steffen Möller]

Please accept the packages for now. I will be in San Diego for two days
meeting them in October. We get this somehow fixed. Any change to the
license would need to go through their law departments again ... which
had happened before and can happen again ... but we should not allow
ourselves to be interrupted through that now.

I don't know if I have the emails, still. I can check. But if I find
them or not. Do not have any release critical bug to it, please.

Steffen

On 08/11/2011 01:35 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as far as I understood Steffen[1] upstream was previousely contacted and
> the permission is granted.  Steffen, can you find some mail from this
> time which is usable for quoting?
>
> Kind regards
>
>       Andreas.
>
> [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-packaging/2011-August/011184.html
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:57:26PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
>> Package: mgltools-pmv
>> Version: 1.5.6~rc1+cvs.20110617-2
>> Severity: Serious
>>
>>
>> [ leaving full quote for the bug log ]
>>
>> Hi Andreas!
>>
>> Well, seems we did a mistake back than.  Sorry.  However, as we agree
>> that the license might not be address Debian, and as the license hasn't
>> changed, I open a bug report for the package in the archive.
>>
>> I guess the easiest solution would be to contact upstream, and ask
>> whether Debian and it's mirrors may distribute the package under these
>> license terms, and add the answer to the copyright file.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>   Alexander
>>
>>
>> Am 10.08.2011 16:05, schrieb Andreas Tille:
>>> Hi Alexander,
>>>
>>> hmmm, I can understand your point, but some other ftpmaster of your team
>>> has considered this differently because the software is just in Debian
>>> and we just splitted the binaries:
>>>
>>> $ apt-cache policy mgltools-pmv
>>> mgltools-pmv:
>>>   Installiert: (keine)
>>>   Kandidat:    1.5.6~rc1+cvs.20110617-2
>>>   Versionstabelle:
>>>      1.5.6~rc1+cvs.20110617-2 0
>>>         501 http://debian.tu-bs.de/debian/ testing/non-free amd64 Packages
>>>          50 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable/non-free amd64 Packages
>>>
>>> or was there some change of the license, Thorsten/Steffen?
>>> Please clarify this - most favourably with upstream to clear out any doubt.
>>> I currently do not have time for checking this.
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>>
>>>       Andreas.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 01:05:42PM +0000, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
>>>> Hi maintainer(s)!
>>>>
>>>> I'm sorry, but I have to reject your package.  Citing your
>>>> debian/copyright:
>>>>
>>>> =====
>>>>   1. Grant Of Limited License; Software Use Restrictions. The programs
>>>>      received by you will be used only for NON COMMERCIAL purposes.
>>>>      This license is issued to you as an individual.
>>>> =====
>>>>
>>>> However, the Debian project is not an individual, so this license doesn't
>>>> seem to apply for us, and therefore we have so far no rights to distribute
>>>> it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>   Alexander
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ===
>>>>
>>>> Please feel free to respond to this email if you don't understand why
>>>> your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our
>>>> concerns.
>>>>
>>>>
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