AW: fmodapi license and non-free (original) (raw)

Hi Charles,

thank you very much for your quick response!

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Von: Charles Plessy plessy@debian.org An: Johey Shmit joheyshmit@yahoo.com CC: debian-legal@lists.debian.org Gesendet: Donnerstag, den 13. Januar 2011, 0:21:47 Uhr Betreff: Re: fmodapi license and non-free

Le Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:47:09PM +0000, Johey Shmit a écrit :

There is a Non-Commercial License which to me sounds like it's ok for 'non-free'. It can be found at http://www.fmod.org/index.php/sales and reads: […] Can anyone confirm if that's ok for 'non-free'?

Dear Johey,

this license does not allow explicitely redistribution, so I think that you would need a clarification from fmod.

Ok, I'll go and check with them.

In addition the license does not allow modification as well, so even if it were technically possible to redistribute the software in the non-free area of our archive, the package would be very difficult to maintain.

Yeah, I know. Unfortunately the game 'zdoom' which I'd love to see in Debian depends on this library.

If fmod.org don't want to change the license, would it be ok to make a package that just downloads the binaries and installs them (as for example 'flashplugin-nonfree')?

Thanks,

Johey

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