Re: Intent to package: lmbench
On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 07:15:04AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@inetarena.com> wrote:
> > (Is it ok?)
> >
> > `lmbench' has a GPL, with the following added restrictions:
> >
> > 1. You may not distribute results in any public forum, in any publication,
> > or in any other way if you have modified the benchmarks.
>
> This means it has to go into non-free. From the DFSG:
>
> 3. Derived Works
> The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must
> allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license
> of the original software.
>
> At least, I think that not being able to distribute results counts as
> different terms. [Though I can understand why he phrased it that
> way, I'd prefer that he had used a "you must call it something else"
> clause.]
Maybe Karl could ask the author to include a phrase to the effect "You
may not distribute benchmarks from derived works without clearly and
prominently indicating that the work is not lmbench".
However, the second exception, about not selling the results, is also
a good reason to put this in non-free, so maybe it's not worth wasting
time trying to fix the first problem.
Ciao,
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David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw
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