[tex-live] InstallJammer

[Frank Küster]

Rolf Niepraschk <Rolf.Niepraschk at ptb.de> wrote:

> Welcome to the home of InstallJammer on the web.
>
> InstallJammer is a multiplatform GUI installer designed to be completely
> cross-platform and function on Windows and most all versions of UNIX
> with eventual support for Mac OS X.

Sounds nice, however:

> License: Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1)

,---- http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/06/msg00221.html
| The consensus from debian-legal archives and current discussion seems to be the
| MPL is non-free. Below is a summary of reasons, compiled from commentary on the
| MPL and the similar Nokia license reviewed last August. 
`----

Note that Mozilla and its components have been relicensed, or a
relicensing is under way - this might indicate that the issues raised
are not mere Debian politics, but in fact real flaws.

A short excerpt of that mail:

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The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is not DFSG free:

1. It does not allow derived works to be distributed under the same terms as
the original software (DFSG #3).

2. It requires distributors to retroactively notify recipients about third-party
legal problems with the software (Dissident test).

3. It restricts court venue, permitting licensors to harass licensees and
effectively revoke the license. (Tentacles of Evil test)

Additionally, to distribute the software, the license requires:

1. Maintaining and updating a LEGAL text file inside the distribution. [clause
3.4(a)].

2. Keeping source available online for at least 12 months, or 6 months after
another version [clause 3.2].

These requirements might make distribution of MPL software impractical for
Debian.

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Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)