Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting shivaken <shivaken AT jcom.home.ne.jp>:
> On Tuesday 27 January 2004 16:58, Jose Bernardo Silva wrote:
> > Yes, only the non-free go into z-rejected, all others go to the main
> grimoire.
> > If djb tools licenses are GPL/BSD compatible, then they should go into the
> > main grimoire, not z-rejected.
> 
> I found other information about his licensing policy
> at http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> You may distribute a precompiled package
> * if installing your package produces exactly the same files, 
>   in exactly the same locations, that a user would obtain by
>   installing one of my packages listed above; 
> * your package behaves correctly, i.e., the same way as normal
>   installations of my package on all other systems; and 
> * your package's creator warrants that he has made a good-faith
>   attempt to ensure that your package behaves correctly. 
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> It seems not to be GPL/BSD compatible, because he limits
>  style of distributing precompiled package.
> I don't know the license is free or not. But, sorcery will not be limitted.
> What is free? What free is needed?
> 
> * Other distributions..
> Debian distributes qmail as source package
>   http://packages.debian.org/stable/mail/qmail-src.html
> Gentoo has emerge of qmail.
>   http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/net-mail/qmail.xml
> Mandrake has precompiled qmail rpm
>   http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/qmail.php
>   ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/rpmhelp/Mandrake/djbware/

However, the pertinent part of that page states:

"You don't need to read this page if you simply want to use my software. You 
are
free to download the software from my web server; you then own that copy of 
the
software, and you are free to compile it and run it."

So the software is free to download and use, he's only limited /binary/
packages, which we do not use (if we can help it). So this could probably go 
in
the main grimoire as long as we're compiling from source.

Also, check the tarballs for a COPYING file, that will tell you what the 
license
is (if he put it in). It sounds like he's a GPL believer so they may be GPL'd
and he's just telling people not to do binaries that are different, since at
the same URL he says:

"Why can't we rename your files?
Compatibility is essential. Files must be accessible by the same names on all
systems."

-sandalle

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