[gNewSense-users] Re: Status of the (Unclarified) Artistic License in gNewSense

[Kevin Dean]

I was looking over the FAQ just now and noticed this...

http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Main/FAQ#toc4

In regard to the question of the Artistic License in gNewSense, the
FAQ seems to imply that since the FSF does not consider the Original
Artistic License to be a Free Software License, these packages need to
be removed from gNewSense.

At present there are two such packages that I know of:
libfont-ttf-perl and libhtml-tableextract-perl

On 7/7/07, Kevin Dean <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've opened a bug marked "Major" that can be found
> http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00099
>
> The status of the Original Artistic License is unclear in gNewSense.
> Debian considers this license to be Free under the DFSG, but the Free
> Software Foundation believes it is ambiguous because of wording and
> has determined it to be non-free.
>
> This is not to be confused with the Modified or Clarified Artistic
> License which the FSF and Debian both consider to be Free Software.
>
> The resolution of this bug, either way, may impact at least one other
> bug containing potential non-free software in gNewSense and applies to
> bug #00001 (gNewSense Contains Non-free Software).
>
> -Kevin Dean