Bug#442032: CPAL (was: Bug#442032: ITP: openproj -- A desktop replacement for Microsoft Project. It is capable of sharing files with Microsoft Project...)
Hi,
The comments below might not apply to the current package, but
are addressed to some of the troubling aspects of the license.
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| 14. ADDITIONAL TERM: ATTRIBUTION
| (a) As a modest attribution to the organizer of the development of
| the Original Code ("Original Developer"), in the hope that its
| promotional value may help justify the time, money and effort
| invested in writing the Original Code, the Original Developer may
| include in Exhibit B ("Attribution Information") a requirement
| that each time an Executable and Source Code or a Larger Work is
| launched or initially run (which includes initiating a session),
| a prominent display of the Original Developer's Attribution
| Information (as defined below) must occur on the graphic user
| interface employed by the end user to access such Covered Code
| (which may include display on a splash screen), if any.
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| The size of the graphic image should be consistent with the size of the
| other elements of the Attribution Information. If the access by the end
| user to the Executable and Source Code does not create a graphic user
| interface for access to the Covered Code, this obligation shall not
| apply. If the Original Code displays such Attribution Information in a
| particular form (such as in the form of a splash screen, notice at
| login, an "about" display, or dedicated attribution area on user
| interface screens), continued use of such form for that Attribution
| Information is one way of meeting this requirement for notice.
| (b) Attribution information may only include a copyright notice, a
| brief phrase, graphic image and a URL ("Attribution Information") and
| is subject to the Attribution Limits as defined below. [...snip!]
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| 15. ADDITIONAL TERM: NETWORK USE.
| The term "External Deployment" means the use, distribution, or
| communication of the Original Code or Modifications in any way such
| that the Original Code or Modifications may be used by anyone other
| than You, whether those works are distributed or communicated to those
| persons or made available as an application intended for use over a
| network. As an express condition for the grants of license hereunder,
| You must treat any External Deployment by You of the Original Code or
| Modifications as a distribution under section 3.1 and make Source Code
| available under Section 3.2.
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This means, if I even use one single function of the original
work, in an a GUI environment, which creates, say, a button to use in
the task bar (small button, think of the wm* packages -- wmweather et
al), I either make the button hugish, or I have to code in a splash
screen -- for every single button that uses any of the original
source. So, if a user has a dozen or so of these buttons in their
toolbar, they are faced with a dozen splash screens when they start
their session.
This sounds like a significant reduction in freedom.
manoj
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Be consistent. Larry Wall in the perl man page
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/>
1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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