This may not matter much in the immediate future becuase Glide3 is completely tied in with XFree4 and we have no plans to include the beta versions of XFree3.9 in potato, however I figure now is the best time to bring this up--sooner the better. The recent source release for the Voodoo3 cards includes two components which are MIT licensed and one part which is under Yet Another Public License(tm) which resembles the GPL and LGPL in several noticable ways. It's attached for your reading pleasure--or whatever. The license seems DFSG compliant to me, but there are a couple of issues I'd like other opinions on. How does the trademark issue affect us? Do I need a "Glide is a trademark of 3dfx Interactive, Inc" in the package desc or do I have to rename the package or can I get an email from the right person telling me that it's fine if I call it glide and tack it to the end of the copyright and license info or is that getting to close to "licenses specific to Debian" or what? The license says that using the software means you accept the license. Of course there are no usage restrictions in the license--only distribution restrictions, so I'm guessing this probably has to be a no-op anyway, regardless of the whole issue of whether or not a Copyright license actually could place restrictions on running software at all (which is covered by fair use IMO..) The DFSG doesn't cover the issue. Just to be sure.. The wordings associated with charging only a copying fee and whatnot, they are safe? Is my interpretation that this is a DFSG compliant license correct? Secondly, how does this license weigh in on the whole GPL compatibility issue? I don't see any snags, does that mean there aren't any? (hope, hope) -- - Joseph Carter GnuPG public key: 1024D/DCF9DAB3, 2048g/3F9C2A43 - knghtbrd@debian.org 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Overfiend> we're calling 2.2 _POTATO_??
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