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

Alexander Reichle-Schmehl tolimar at debian.org
Thu Aug 11 12:07:04 UTC 2011


severity 637430 important
retitle 637430 Please clarify debian/copyright wrt to "YOU"
thanks

Hi!

Am 11.08.2011 13:39, schrieb Steffen Möller:

>> 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?
>> 
>> [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-packaging/2011-August/011184.html
> 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.

Hmm....  It seems the mail Andreas points to do wasn't sent to us or the
bug report.  Okay, the important thing is the following:

> We have the explicit OK from upstream to do what we are doing.

Okay, so we are allowed to actually distribute the package.  Wonderful,
let's downgrade the bug :)

So completely solve it, could you please add a sentence to your
copyright?  Something along the lines that in agreement with upstream
Debian may distribute the package, for other users the following license
applies?

Best regards,
  Alexander





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