[maemo-developers] Is mauku open source, i.e free or is in non-free?

From: Jeremiah Foster jeremiah at jeremiahfoster.com
Date: Tue Jan 26 21:13:21 EET 2010
Hello,

Bug #7505 asks if mauku is open or closed. According to the bug report, it looks pretty closed.

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7505

"I installed mauku from the maemo extras free repository, believing it was Free
Software, but trying to figure out which license it is under, I noticed there
is no license file at all, and file headers have the following message:

/* Mauku 2.0 (c) Henrik Hedberg <
hhedberg at innologies.fi
> 
   You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code. */

The debian/copyright file also says this:

Mauku 2.0 is NOT open source software. You are NOT allowed to
modify or redistribute the source code.

I believe it should at least be moved to the non-free section, and stop
claiming it ships with a free license in its download page."


What should we do here? Move this to non-free?

Thanks,

Jeremiah
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