Also xwatch, xcolmix and xplot license (Re: xmemos license, revised)
KELEMEN Peter wrote:
> In
> my mail to him, I expressed three possibilities to make xmemos DFSG-free
> (GPL+explicit allowance to link against XForms, change license to e.g.
> Artistic, or link against FLTK).
> I would like
> to hear your opinions, since I'm afraid that according to previous
> debates on debian-devel and debian-legal, the proposed modification is
> not clear enough.
> The licence is public, free,
> but you must give all the files when you distribute xmemos.
Wow. The intention is certainly good! I'll leave the opinion of
clarity to legal eagles in debian-legal.
While we're on the topic, here's a revised license that will be
used for xwatch, xcolmix and xplot (They are currently plain
GPL). Last chance to comment before upload!
XColmix - an RGB colour mixer.
Copyright (C) 1996 Karel Kubat. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
You may, at your option and for the purposes of distributing this
program in object code or executable form under Section 3 of the GNU
General Public License, assume that the xforms library (Copyright (c)
by T.C. Zhao and Mark Overmars) is normally distributed with the major
components of the operating system on which the executable or object
code runs. If you choose not to excercise this option, you may
distribute this software only under the terms of the GNU General
Public License and may remove this paragraph.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
We request that you do not redistribute this package after you've made
any changes to it (forks of the package), but instead send us your
changes such that they be included in the upstream version of the
package.
And by the way, I looked at the package xfmix for fun, and it is
another package that links to XForms that has a plain GPL
license. I'm _not_ filling a bug report against it because I'm
not in the camp that believes that its a problem for programs
specifically designed to work with XForms (not ports). But I'm
raising the issue anyway. Perhaps someone that cares deeply
about it will go through all contrib packages to look for XForms
dependent packages and check licenses?
Peter
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