Re: HIPPOCRATIC LICENSE

Joerg Jaspert <[email protected]> Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:44:44 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.legal
Organization Ganneff
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 17741 March 1977, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Did we discuss this license?

Doesn't seem to be too useful to discuss? It's clearly not compatible 
with Debian main requirements.

> Quoting the core variant below for ease of review.  It looks 
> challenging
> from a DFSG-perspective to me.

It very much is not a challenge, the whole ethical standards, while 
sounding good, makes it entirely non-free.

The whole "freedom" part that's important for us is incompatible with 
the - possibly useful goal - that they try to get with their ethical 
standards.