Comment 11 for bug 58917

* Michael Janssen (<email address hidden>) wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Eric Dorland wrote:
>
> > My roommate and I have just had a look at the license for the 4.4.0
> > release and those problematic clauses have been removed!!! Do a diff
> > on the 4.0.0 license and the 4.4.0 license from the source tarballs
> > and you'll see. Get packaging :)
>
>
> The 4.4.0 license is the same as earlier 4.x versions of BitTorrent,
> they still use the BOSL 1.1 license, which was covered in the last
> email which I sent to you - unless they changed the license without
> changing the version number, it still fails at least the tentacles of
> evil test.

Sorry I saw from my cursory examination that those sections had been
changed and they looked OK to me. I didn't realize there were other
problems. It really is a shame there license is so problematic. Please
continue to encourage them to fix the problem parts of their license,
it would be great to have this piece of software in Debian.

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