Re: [GNU-linux-libre] ufoai has noncommercial requirements

[Sam Geeraerts]

Leo wrote:
> I believe that ufoai is in contrib in Debian.

It didn't make it into Debian [1].

> Arch wrongly marks ufoai-data as 
> GPL (in Parabola it's getting blacklisted right now).
> If it could be included in the blacklist in Libre Planet that would be good.

Fine by me. I happily leave the work to those who are bothered/affected 
by it. :)

> I'll try to contact the team behind ufoai about this and ask them if they can 
> replace the nonfree files (they really aren't many (8 sound effects) and to 
> clarify the licence on the rest of the files (about 12 of them lack a 
> license). If someone wants to contact them, though, it would be good, since I 
> don't have a lot of free time.
> They seem to be aware of this problem judging from [3], so they should be 
> advised about this by a licence guru.

Pointing at the DFSG should make it pretty obvious to them that 
non-commercial is not compatible with Debian main. FSDG is very clear 
that it's not compatible with free distros.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=244582