Justin Dugger wrote: > Hello, I have a question about licenses for packages in a PPA. The > game SoulFu has a fairly obnoxious license, apparently the attempt of > the > original author to create a working community development effort gone insane: > > <snip> > This license includes significant restrictions on changes to the game, > and demands that no money be charged for the software itself. I've > written an email to the author requesting something saner, > with no response thus far. Would such a license be acceptable for a > PPA hosted by Canonical? > > Justin Dugger > > Wow, that's some license. As it's a custom license and not under an OSI approved, FSF approved, or CC license (and i'm not 100% sure it's completely DFSG compliant) it's hard to tell. ([1] links to a list of acceptable licences) It does "sound" like a free license and I suppose if it's freely distributable (as binary and source) and modifiable then it should be acceptable. I'd ask in #launchpad (on irc.freenode.net) and/or ask on launchpad answers[2], to see if one of the launchpad team (who are good with licenses) can give you a definite answer. Terence [1] <https://help.launchpad.net/PPATermsofUse> [2] <https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad>
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