Re: Packaging xphoon
Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, David Frey wrote:
>
> > > > Huh? "Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute...."
> > > > ^^^^^^
> > >
> > > Yes, you can distribute it, and yes, you can modify it. But
> > > can you distribute a modified package?
> >
> > Why do you think that this is not possible?
>
> Because it's not clearly stated in the copyright. That
> statement means:
> 1.- Permission to use.
> 2.- Permission to copy.
> 3.- Permission to modify.
> 4.- Permission to distribute.
> All of these points refer to `this software and its documentation'.
> It's not stated anywhere that the modifications still have the same
> license. But I may be wrong...
By this reasoning, a lot of software we have has to go into non-free:
x3270
gencat
BIND
xditview
comerr
xpm
mpack
xpostit
fvwm2
libtiff
xkeycaps
svgalib
libmagick
imagemagick
gzilla
and on and on. This is just the first few of a long list I got from
the `copyright' files with a simple `grep' command along with manual
examination:
find . -name copyright | xargs grep -l "to use, copy" | xargs less
(Some of those might be in non-free anyway for other reasons :-)
--
Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu> <blp@gnu.org> <pfaffben@debian.org>
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