Re: Fw: Re: VVVVVV - Seeking Sponsorship

* On 11/11/25 23:21, computermouth wrote:
> I contacted the author to see if they would be open to changing the license to something like CC-BY-SA. They said the best they could do at this time is to add Debian to the list of exceptions granted by the file linked below.

The short answer is that this won't be good enough.

Even data in non-free must be freely redistributable, including 
non-discrimination of endeavor.

Debian can be freely forked and redistributed, which also holds true for the 
non-free part as far as I know - and which also includes commercial 
applications, which in turn seems to be author's main gripe.

Even with the exception, doing something like this obviously wouldn't be possible.

I understand this to be a blow, but under these licensing terms, the software 
won't ever be able to make it even into the non-free repository.



Mihai