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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Source code of large programs wanted
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:59:52 +0000 (UTC)
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Jeff C wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

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

Isn't clear enough?

Cheers

-- Martin