[PD] new license for pidip and unauthorized WAS: pd-pidip into Debian

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> Yeah, I think that's the case, its been discussed before:
> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-ot/2006-01/001371.html

But legally, the way that it goes, is that licenses have to be explicitly 
produced by the respective copyright holders, so, when anyone says that 
GPL makes some other software «automatically» GPL'ed, that's not true : if 
there is a contradiction of licenses, distribution of the software is 
illegal until either party or both parties change their license in a way 
that doesn't make it conflict anymore.

That's an important point of the law, because it means that if an author 
doesn't want to cooperate, you can't act as if the software license was 
something else than what is stated : you really need explicit statements 
all along.

Thus PiDiP not only can't go in Debian's main (and sourceforge), it can't 
even go in Debian's non-free, and it's been like that continuously since 
at least 2005.

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