possible license issue with 2xSaI assembler sources

[Adam Lydick]

The VBA package includes some portions written in hand-tuned assembler for the i386 platform. These seem to be covered by a non-GPL compatible license.

See: ./src/i386/2xSaImmx.asm

The copyright information states:

"Non-Commercial use of this software is allowed and is encouraged"

but says nothing about commercial usage (which *is* allowed by the GPL)

Also, the author "requests that any improvements to the engine be submitted to me". This also seems to be a GPL-incompatible requirement. (unless it is just an informal request and not a condition for distributing modified versions of the software).

[trollord (trollenlord)]

It does not metion either that you are allowed to print the source code on paper, sweeten with maple cyrup, and eat it. Mentioning the commercial use is not required, especially as there is no contradiction (limitation against it).

The rest really looks like an informal request. Even if it was something else, it would be unbinding by the way it is presented non-integrated with the GPL.

[StefanPotyra (sistpoty)]

setting back to confirmed, at least the license for this file is missing in debian/copyright.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is there movement on this issue in Ubuntu?

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Also fixed in intrepid due to merge from Debian unstable.

[Sam Geeraerts (samgee)]

Default copyright does not allow commercial use, so allowing it explicitly *is* required.

This bug report is about license incompatibility, not missing copyright info. The file with the offending file is still there in version 1.8.0 in Ubuntu 10.10.