xinetd license possibly violates DFSG #4

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:24:44AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
[...] 
> > 1. The version number will be modified as follows:
> >       a. The first 3 components of the version number
> >          (i.e <number>.<number>.<number>) will remain unchanged.
> >       b. A new component will be appended to the version number to
> >          indicate the modification level. The form of this component
> >          is up to the author of the modifications.
> 
>   While DFSG4 does allow licenses that "require derived works to carry a
> different name or version number from the original software", this seems
> to go much further than that, since it requires keeping the original
> version number.
[...]

I do not consider this to "go much further than that". The intention is
imho the one DFSG4 tries to carter for. The author wants:
a) derivatives being detectable as such.
b) derivatives have to keep out of xinetd's namespace. He wants to
forbid a derivative being numbered as xinetd 2.3.15, taking away the
official version number.

             cu andreas