Re: Source code of large programs wanted

["Manuel G. R." <mgrojo@ya.com>]

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.

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