Re: wxgtk: Is this free software?
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Brian Bassett, Computational Thaumaturge wrote:
> I will upload a new package to master later this week if consensus is
> in favor of using the new license.
the license certainly seems like it is DFSG free.
it's still confusing though. it seems to me as if it's LGPL but they
make an exception which makes it roughly equivalent to a BSD license.
> EXCEPTION NOTICE
>
> 1. As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give
> permission for additional uses of the text contained in this release of
> the library as licenced under the wxWindows Library Licence, applying
> either version 3 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version of
> the Licence as published by the copyright holders of version 3 of the
> Licence document.
>
> 2. The exception is that you may use, copy, link, modify and distribute
> under the user's own terms, binary object code versions of works based
> on the Library.
am i reading this wrong, or does this say "you can re-license a modified
binary-only version of this library under any terms you like".
it's their software and their license, but have they considered that this
clause leaves them open to having their code stolen into proprietary
packages? worst case scenario is that someone adds a comment (or some
other trivial change) and then gets to license it any way they like.
craig
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craig sanders
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