Re: RFC: the new license for IBPP

[Damyan Ivanov <divanov@creditreform.bg>]

Hi, Jacobo,

Jacobo Tarrio wrote:
> El jueves, 30 de marzo de 2006 a las 16:33:59 +0300, Damyan Ivanov escribía:
>
> > Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or
> > organization (???You???) obtaining a copy of this software and associated
> > documentation files covered by this license (the ???Software???) to use
> > the Software as part of another work; to modify it for that purpose;
>
>  It allows to modify the library if it is needed to make it work with other
> piece of software ("for that purpose" == "to use the Software as part of
> another work"), but that wording does not allow modifying it to improve its
> performance, for example.

Isn't it permitted to modify "the Software" for whatever reason as 
long as it is distributed as a part of a another work? ("for that 
purpose" isn't very clear IMO).

Or, if the "other" software requires a super-fast IBPP, then we comply 
with the license, sicne the modification is made to make it work with 
the "other work". Still unclear. :/

I am curious what others think. Whether these uncertainties pose a 
DFSG-freeness problem.


Thanks for replying
--
dam