[MLton] Bug#220052: mlton non-free

Roland Stigge Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>, 220052@bugs.debian.org
Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:07:01 +0100


Package: mlton
Version: 20030716-1
Severity: serious

Hi,

from the copyright file:

========================================================================
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
both the copyright notice and this permission notice and warranty
disclaimer appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of
Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs or any Lucent entity not be used in
advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software
without specific, written prior permission.
========================================================================
 
I guess "without fee" means "no selling allowed". But DFSG.1 requires
the right to sell the software.
  
Thanks for considering.

bye,
  Roland
    

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux atari 2.4.20 #1 Fri Apr 4 11:15:24 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)

Versions of packages mlton depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgmp3-dev                 4.1.2-3      Multiprecision arithmetic library 

-- no debconf information