Non-free tracking system

Reason for being non-free: Released under the Open Publication License, plus restrictions on modifications and print distribution.

Reason for being non-free: license allows use only, no modification or use in derived works.
Resolution:
License change is being discussed with upstream. See 248782.

Reason for being non-free: no distribution for profit without express written permission, no modification.
Replacements: tre-agrep
Resolution:
nikk is working on a license change.

Reason for being non-free: No redistribution of modified versions. No sale. Can't modify in order to remove the credits line in generated web pages.
Replacements: bins, cthumb, gallery, phpix, galrey, igal, lodju

Reason for being non-free: Only can be distributed without modifications. And only can be used for alien-arena [contrib]

Reason for being non-free: non-commercial distribution. strange terms for distribution of binaries.

Reason for being non-free: free use & distribution, but no modification or re-use of data.

Reason for being non-free: educational, research and not-for-profit distribution only. There's Angband OpenSource Initiative to change license to GPL but they have problems contacting all the copyright holders.

Reason for being non-free: Redistribution must be non-profit.

Reason for being non-free: no sale or profit.

Reason for being non-free: The firmware loading utility is GPL'd, but the firmware may only be distributed in .h or .rom format. No more rights are granted.

Reason for being non-free: Open Publication License Draft v0.4.

Reason for being non-free: Documentation under GFDLv1.1 with Front-Cover text and Back-Cover text.

Reason for being non-free: The whole program are under GPL. Only one HOWTO html page are under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0

Reason for being non-free: Some .info files are released under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.1 with Front-Cover Text and Back-Cover Text

Reason for being non-free: Some files are released under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.2 with Front-Cover Text and Back-Cover Text

Reason for being non-free: no commercial exploitation
Resolution:
There are lots of replacements.

Reason for being non-free: GPL'd but source code for the firmware is not provided.

Reason for being non-free: Released under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.2 with Front-Cover Text and Back-Cover Text

Reason for being non-free: Mostly public domain. Some parts are under DFSG-free licenses. The game levels and maybe some other game data seems to be copyrighted by Christer Ericson. Upstream's permission to use that data does not seem to include making changes, etc.
Resolution:
Someone should ask Christer Ericson for a DFSG-free license for the game data.

Reason for being non-free: Firmware blob. The BlueZ project has permission to distribute the firmware, but what about Debian?

Reason for being non-free: BSD with 3 extra clauses. first two require appropriate credit. third says no trade, sale, personal gain or profit.

Reason for being nonfree: The license attempts to combine BSD-styled license and GPLv1 with additional restriction, which is very questionable. Please read the discussion.

Reason for being non-free: no distribition by any commercial enterprise to its actual or potential customers, with explicit exception for free/open source operating systems
Resolution:
Upstream is considering changes to the license.

Reason for being non-free: no modification, no sale or commercial distribution. print or CD distribution requires copy sent to author.

Reason for being non-free: no fee or compensation may be charged for use, copying, distribution or access.

Reason for being non-free: commercial redistribution requires a separate non-exclusive license.

Reason for being non-free: commercial redistribution requires a separate non-exclusive license.

Reason for being non-free: no modification allowed. Relicensing attempts haven't been successful so far.

Reason for being non-free: no modification allowed. Relicensing attempts haven't been succesful so far.

Reason for being non-free: no modification allowed. Relicensing attempts haven't been successful so far.

Reason for being non-free: no modification allowed. Relicensing attempts haven't been successful so far.

Reason for being non-free: no modification allowed. Relicensing attempts haven't been successful so far.

Reason for being non-free: seems to be free, license seems to be BSD-like with strongly emphasised credit clauses. Jörgen Hägg: "One of the licenses does not permit modification."
Resolution:
rtty?

Reason for being non-free: Released under the Q Public License.

Reason for being non-free: no commercial distribution. personal use only, restrictions on using the software in chess tournaments. any changes MUST be made public.
Replacements: gnuchess, phalanx

Reason for being non-free: some parts of it do not allow commercial distribution, otherwise BSD-like license.

Reason for being non-free: non-existent license? permission has been granted for debian to distribute.

Reason for being non-free: various licenses, mostly failing to give explicit permission to modify, or explicitly prohibiting modification. i didn't read them all.

Reason for being non-free: no modification allowed

Reason for being non-free: license allows use only, no modification or use in derived works.
Replacements: freedoom

Reason for being non-free: No source code. No reverse engineering, etc.

Reason for being non-free: Released under the GPL but with restrictions on modified versions. The upstream author states that his interpretation of the GPL allows these restrictions, debian-legal disagrees.
Replacements: dvd+rw-tools

Reason for being non-free: binary only shareware, no profit
Replacements: geda (schematic capture) + pcb/geda-gschem (layout)
Resolution:
Some discussion.

Reason for being non-free: Open Publication License.

Reason for being non-free: Open Publication License.

Reason for being non-free: Most of the files are licensed under GFDL 1.2 with Front-Cover and Back-Cover. There are also some files which introduce the philosophy of GNU and these files cannot be modified.

Reason for being non-free: "may not be used for commercial purposes without specific prior written permission from the authors."

Reason for being non-free: "may not be used for commercial purposes without specific prior written permission from the authors."

Reason for being non-free: Most things are binary-only. And it's not allowed to decompile/disassemble and modify.

Reason for being non-free: Includes a .zip library for which modifications must be emailed to the author within 30 days of being made. The rest of the source code seems to be licensed under a modified "Artistic License", with varying licenses for the rest of the package. Special permission is given to sell it as part of the "Debian Linux" distribution or derivatives. Bug #274950 details the problems.
Replacements: toilet

Reason for being non-free: Most things are binary-only. And it's not allowed to decompile/disassemble and modify.

Reason for being non-free: not to be sold for profit or commercially exploited

Reason for being non-free: a collection of miscellaneous stuff by various authors. no clear license, probably shouldn't even be in non-free.

Reason for being non-free: Released under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.2 with Front-Cover Text and Back-Cover Text

Reason for being non-free: Released under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.2 with Front-Cover Text and Back-Cover Text

Reason for being non-free: Documentations released under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.2 with Front-Cover Text and Back-Cover Text

Reason for being non-free: Released under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.2 with Front-Cover Text and Back-Cover Text

Reason for being non-free: Only permitted to redistribute freely.

Reason for being non-free: Released under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.1 with Front-Cover Text and Back-Cover Text

Reason for being non-free: no redistribution of modified data files.

Reason for being non-free: Released under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.2 with Front-Cover Text and Back-Cover Text

Reason for being non-free: Released under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.1.

Reason for being non-free: "You may not use this software, in whole or in part, in support of any commercial product without the express consent of the author."

Reason for being non-free: Open Publication License. no print distribution, no distribution of 'substantively modified' versions.

Reason for being non-free: no modification allowed.

Reason for being non-free: contains shareware "Kana" fonts by Kevin Hartig, plus some "freeware" fonts by Thomas Wolff which may not be sold. all other fonts in the package appear to be free.

Reason for being non-free: Released under the GNU Free Documentation License with Front-Cover Text and Back-Cover Text

Reason for being non-free: Free Document Dissemination Licence, "FDDL version 1": restrictions on the kind of modifications allowed.

Reason for being non-free: Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 2.5

Reason for being non-free: "May be copied and redistributed, partially or in whole, as appropriate." no explicit right to modify.

Reason for being non-free: A bunch of binary files, the source code might be missing depending on how they are made. The license of PhotoGamutRGB.icc is either public domain (according to their website) or Creative Commons Attribution.NoDerivs 2.5 (according to debian/control). The other files have varying licenses requiring things like not charging for them, not modifying them, limitations on use, etc.

Reason for being non-free: no profit, no substantial modifications, restrictions on output

Reason for being non-free: "The author retains the exclusive right to publish derivative works based on this work, including, but not limited to, revised versions of this work"

Reason for being non-free: Distributors must follow the law, vague restriction on modifications.

Reason for being non-free: free for non-commercial use and in free software projects.

Reason for being non-free: The license is non-transferable and does not even permit redistribution. There seems to be a vague exception to this license: "Dictionary bases are provided by Arsenal Company for KSocrat only."
Resolution:
The permission to distribute the data along with ksocrat is so vague that we might not be permitted to distribute ksocrat and ksocrat-data in separate packages and repository areas (like we're doing now) and we have no idea if the exception is transferable (the license isn't). Should ask for removal since it's orphaned.

Reason for being non-free: part GPL. other parts may not have fees charged for use, distribution, etc.
Resolution:
License will be changed and latex2html will move to main.

Reason for being non-free: no sale, unclear permission for derivates
Resolution:
Look at how good the listings macro package in tetex-extra is, apparently it should be able to read lgrind's input but it doesn't look as good or something.

Reason for being non-free: "Binary only distribution is not allowed". restrictions on "commercial" or "for-fee" (license translator is undecided) usage.
Replacements: jlha-utils
Resolution:
Possible replacement discussed here. A Java LHA library exists.

Reason for being non-free: may only be used for "implementing the FastCGI specification", i.e. restrictions on what derived works are allowed to do/be.

Reason for being non-free: Released under the Q Public License.

Reason for being non-free: The license does not allow distribution at all, but Linux distributors have been given permission to distribute it.
Resolution:
Wait for upstream to relicense, then it will be moved to main.

Reason for being non-free: GPL, but with restrictions on how you are allowed to distribute the output (no cheating, no profiting).

Reason for being non-free: GNU Free Documentation License Version 1.2 or later.

Reason for being non-free: Most files are BSD/GPLv2 dual licensed. But some files are only permitted to distributed without modification, and some files are binary only.

Reason for being non-free: software is GPL. artwork and sounds may not be distributed separately from the software.

Reason for being non-free: Released under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.2 with Front-Cover Text and Back-Cover Text

Reason for being non-free: Seems to be unclear if the license is DFSG-free or not, see bug #234205 for the reasoning.

Reason for being non-free: Vague limitations on distributing derivative works.

Reason for being non-free: Released under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.2 with Front-Cover Text and Back-Cover Text

Reason for being non-free: BSD-style license with noxious advertising clause. why is this in non-free? Doesn't come with proper source (discussion 1, 2, 3)
Replacements: m2c?

Reason for being non-free: No source? Apple Public Source License.

Reason for being non-free: very simple license says it is "free software". fails to have an explicit clause allowing modification. clarification would be good, but IMO there is no compelling reason why this can't go in main.

absence of an explicit grant of permission, therefore no right to even distribute (discussion); Author can't be contacted

Reason for being non-free: seems free, except that there is no explicit grant of right to modify & redistribute.

Reason for being non-free: No sale, no modification, no distribution of binaries, etc. "Anyone may copy it but no one may sell it."

Reason for being non-free: no distribution of binaries or modified source. "Distribution of sources containing adaptations of the SunView interface to XView or to any X11-based interface is expressly prohibited."
Resolution:
license is too restrictive for even non-free. See bug #242281, discussion.

Reason for being non-free: GPL'd but includes binary-only firmware.

Reason for being non-free: Non-commercial.
Replacements: iperf?, netpipe-tcp?

Reason for being non-free: various & unclear. internet-developed software from the dawn ages before we realised explicit licenses were needed.
Resolution:
Russ Allbery: "This is partly replaced by mailpost and/or news2mail (I forget which direction newsgate goes), included in INN under a better license. A bit of additional development effort would likely kill newsgate completely; it's not a very complicated program, particularly when written in a better programing language for string manipulation than C."

Reason for being non-free: using/copying/modifying/distributing for any purpose except "making money" is allowed.
Replacements: bing, iperf

Reason for being non-free: binary-only. no modification, no reverse engineering. Installer package has been suggested
Resolution:
free XFree packages exist but with incomplete functionality. utah-glx nouveau?

Reason for being non-free: no modification of the official content. restrictions on commercial products (must be DFSG).

Reason for being non-free: translation or derivative works must be approved by authors.

Reason for being non-free: license unclear/non-existent. permission granted to Debian to distribute.

Reason for being non-free: "This software is subject to an open license. It may only be used on, with or for operating systems which are themselves open source systems."

Open Group is going to release libmotif "under a license complying with the Open Source guidelines sometime in the future"
Resolution:
lesstif2-dev except that some software don't seem to work with it (e.g. those using Allegro Common Lisp Graphical Interface) (details)

Reason for being non-free: changes not allowed. separation of file(s) not allowed.
Replacements: musixtex

Reason for being non-free: free for non-commercial purposes only.

Reason for being non-free: "It can be freely used for educational and research purposes by non-profit institutions and US government agencies only". may not be sold or redistributed.

Reason for being non-free: commercial re-use requires commercial license and fee. CD-ROM and other vendors must notify Argonne National Laboratory.

Reason for being non-free: "education, academic research and non-commercial purposes" only.

Reason for being non-free: Open Publication License, v1.0.

Reason for being non-free: "Not to be sold so you cannot put it on a commercial CDROM". License change failed.
Resolution:
Would PAL do the job? It's Java code licensed under LGPL but can be compiled with gjc.

Reason for being non-free: permission required for payment-based use or distribution.

Reason for being non-free: permission required for payment-based use or distribution.

Reason for being non-free: permission required for payment-based use or distribution.

Reason for being non-free: permission required for payment-based use or distribution.

Reason for being non-free: permission required for payment-based use or distribution.

Reason for being non-free: permission required for payment-based use or distribution.

Reason for being non-free: permission required for payment-based use or distribution.

Reason for being non-free: Upstream interprets license to forbid redistribution of binaries built from modified source.
Replacements: mutt
Resolution:
We don't have pine in Debian, why is this needed?

Reason for being non-free: Non-commercial license.

Reason for being non-free: severe restrictions on commercial/non-free distribution.
Resolution:
Current license says that version 4 will be released under a license that is "far more liberal in terms of reuse". Possible replacements: zrcube, Yafray, ayam (copyright trouble) +aqsis/pixie, partially Blender (discussion)
Version 4 will be a complete and total rewrite, and won't occur anytime soon.

Reason for being non-free: No source code. No modifications are allowed and all copies must be "true and complete". No reverse engineering is allowed. Discriminates against the U.S. Government.

Reason for being non-free: may not be used for profit-making. no commercial distribution.

Reason for being non-free: Derived works must be Python modules.

Reason for being non-free: djb license. no distribution of modified versions. no binary distribution.
Replacements: courier-mta, postfix, exim4

Reason for being non-free: Allows distribution and use for non-commercial purposes only. Does not allow modification.

Reason for being non-free: non-commercial purposes.

Reason for being non-free: shareware. 40 days free use. binary-only. Needed to unpack version 3.0 archives.

Reason for being non-free: Debian has explicit permission to distribute it with the restriction that it can not be sold, and that's all we have. No permission to distribute modified versions, etc.

Reason for being non-free: not allowed to take money for distribution or use except for a nominal charge for copying, etc.

Reason for being non-free: Released under the Open Publication License.

Reason for being non-free: hardcopy only for personal use. no modification of content.

Reason for being non-free: Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial-Share-Alike (by-nc-sa). Non-commercial is non-free.

Reason for being non-free: confusing, self-contradictory license. seems free, but some contradictory clauses mention "non-commercial".

Reason for being non-free: Released under the Open Publication License.

Reason for being non-free: no modification, restrictions on distribution and "republishing" (e.g. may not be published with nazi content or with child pornography or with religious fundamentalist content). permission granted to debian to distribute.

Reason for being non-free: modified files must be renamed and clearly identified. Why is this in non-free?

Steve Langasek: "ISTR this license element came up for discussion in the context of the LaTeX license; I /thought/ the conclusion was that requiring changes to filenames in the source was ok, but that requiring changes to filenames in the binary package was not" (discussion) Elsewhere, Knuth says that "Public-domain sources for all programs and data of The Stanford GraphBase are freely available."

Branden Robinson: "I don't believe that's correct. A requirement to change the filename at any stage was dropped from the latest draft of the LPPL that Frank Mittelbach posted to debian-legal (summer 2003).

I personally would maintain that a requirement to change a filename is an unacceptable restriction on one's freedom to modify the work. The LaTeX Project no longer appears to be interested in contending this issue, and I know of no other copyright holder of software packaged by the Debian Project who does." (discussion)
Resolution:
Suggest relicensing?

Reason for being non-free: contradictory stuff about charging for copies. the tutorial may not be modified.

Reason for being non-free: BSD-style license but partially binary

Reason for being non-free: non-commercial personal use only.
Replacements: zsnes

Reason for being non-free: no fee for distribution, complete source is not available

Reason for being non-free: derivative works may not be sold for profit without author's permission.

Reason for being non-free: derivative works may not be sold for profit without author's permission.

Reason for being non-free: personal use only. no sale/distribution in conjunction with a commercial product.
Replacements: gxemul
Resolution:
gxemul can do what spim does, does it a lot better, and does a lot more. Should ask the spim maintainer if spim is needed anymore. UCB SPIM (http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~spim/) was forked from SPIM when it still was GPL (circa 1999?).

Reason for being non-free: Most files are released under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.2 with Front-Cover Text and Back-Cover Text

Reason for being non-free: Binary-only. SUN's Operating System Distributor License, don't allow modify, decompile, or reverse engineer.
Replacements: gcj
Resolution:
Possible replacement: icedtea

Reason for being non-free: Binary-only. SUN's Operating System Distributor License, don't allow modify, decompile, or reverse engineer.
Resolution:
Possible replacement: icedtea

Reason for being non-free: no fee for copying, limited right to modify (porting only).

Reason for being non-free: Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 2.5

Reason for being non-free: Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 2.5

Reason for being non-free: Released under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.1 with Front-Cover Text and Back-Cover Text

Reason for being non-free: educational, research, and not for profit purposes

Reason for being non-free: no clear license. Debian granted permission to distribute. Author can't be contacted

Reason for being non-free: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5
Resolution:
If we can convince upstream to re-license the game data to CC-by-sa 3.0, we can move this package to main. See #432095

Reason for being non-free: no monetary profit. it may not be sold, rented, traded or otherwise marketed.
Replacements: slrn, nn, tin

Reason for being non-free: no monetary profit. it may not be sold, rented, traded or otherwise marketed (software bundlers are exempt as long as they include source). About relicensing.
Replacements: slrn, nn, tin

Reason for being non-free: redistribution seems to require notification of Wadalab group.

Reason for being non-free: restrictions on modifications.
Replacements: ttf-dustin, ttf-bitstream-vera, ttf-thryomanes

Reason for being non-free: No sale or modification. When used commercially the author seems to require payment in the form of a sample picture which the author may show on a web site. The English translation of the license is hard to follow though, it could also be just an offer to put a sample picture on a web site.

Reason for being non-free: Only for non-commercial purposes. No modification.

Reason for being non-free: The license restricts users to make an ACE compatible compressor based on this program.

Reason for being non-free: GPL, but with two binary-only object modules.

Reason for being non-free: may not be used to recreate proprietary RAR compression algorithm, no modification, can't charge for distribution
Replacements: unrar-free
Resolution:
The free unrar still lacks important features, like decompression of version 3 archives. People are working on this.

Reason for being non-free: contains some binary-only, no source available code.
Resolution:
upx-ucl? (is it compatible?)

Reason for being non-free: may only be copied as part of a distribution of The Ur-Quan Masters

Reason for being non-free: must include a link to the original W3C document. no right to modify or create derivative works.

Reason for being non-free: non-commercial activities only. not to be sold or used to generate profit.
Resolution:
Development has been frozen since year 2000.

Reason for being non-free: Game data files are only be able to redistribute in unmodified form.

Reason for being non-free: Non-commercial, non-modifiable license. Permission has been specially granted for Debian to distribute.

Reason for being non-free: "Distribution [...] requires formal notification to the WIP contact"
Resolution:
talk to upstream about relicensing

Reason for being non-free: non-commercial, no changes.

Reason for being non-free: various fonts, various licenses...mostly no modifications.

Reason for being non-free: no re-use in commercial programs that produce fractal images. The source code for a modified version of Fractint may not be distributed.

Reason for being non-free: "If you sell it, you are a thief." Restrictions on how it may be distributed. Source may not be used in commercial products.

Reason for being non-free: no modification allowed.

Reason for being non-free: no modification allowed.

Reason for being non-free: no modification allowed.

Reason for being non-free: no modification allowed.

Reason for being non-free: no commercial use, no profit.

Reason for being non-free: no commercial distribution by itself (but bundling on CD is OK).

Reason for being non-free: Allows only packaging and making changes that facilitate that.

Reason for being non-free: no modification.

Reason for being non-free: educational, research, and not for profit purposes; There's Angband OpenSource Initiative to change license to GPL but they have problems contacting all the copyright holders.

Reason for being non-free: Binary blobs licensed under the GPL.