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Manuel G. R. wrote:
> Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
>> Martin Dowie wrote:
>>
>>> Jeffrey Carter wrote:
>>>
>>> I think "CLAW" on Debian might be a hard sell! :-)
>>
>>
>> Depends. :-) Windows emulation via Wine is making progress.
>>
>> IIRC, CLAW's toolkit dependent stuff is mostly collected into
>> a single package; thus it might well be possible to rewrite
>> this part of the introductory edition, for easy porting to
>> GNU/Linux and relatives.
>>
> 
> AFAIK, CLAW does not meet the The Debian Free Software Guidelines 
> (http://www.debian.org/social_contract): specifically the one about 
> "Derived Works". I think you cannot port it to GNU/Linux without 
> permission. It is not free software (in the GNU sense), but commercial 
> software that can be used freely for personal (non-commercial) projects. 
> Not all libraries that comes with source code can make its way into 
> Debian. At least to the core distribution, but they have a semiofficial 
> non-free section for these cases.
> 

In theory it is GMGPL now..

http://www.adapower.com/adapower1/claw/

Indicates it is released uner GMGPL which is "free enough"..
But...The files are not marked that way currently.

Note I am not suggesting that David or anyone is doing anything wrong 
(especially since it is not distributed from adapower just linked 
fromit) or that I have any reason to believe that the usenet post that 
"said" it was released GMGPL was not valid....but if I were in a 
position to accept/reject claw into Debian I would reject it without 
clear license/copyright information which currently does not (appear) to 
exist.