Re: Bug#218073: ITP: dvdrtools -- DVD writing program
Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> said:
> Mathieu Roy <yeupou@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> said:
>>> Julien Delange <julien@gunnm.org> wrote:
>>>> Package: wnpp
>>>> Severity: wishlist
>>>
>>>> * Package name : dvdrtools
>>>> Version : 0.1.5
[...]
>> c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
>> when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
>> interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
>> announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a
>> notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide
>> a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
>> these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this
>> License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but
>> does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
>> the Program is not required to print an announcement.)
>
>> I do not interpret that as a need to change the status message to show
>> that this software is a fork.
>
>> It just talk about a copyright notice, copying conditions and
>> warranties, nothing about the fact that the software is forked or not.
>
>> It would anyway be very problematic to interpret this license that
>> way. Any big modification can be seen as a fork...
>
> I don't know, but read together with "If the software is modified by
> someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to know that what
> they have is not the original, so that any problems introduced by
> others will not reflect on the original authors' reputations." it is
> not that insensible that "appropriate copyright notice" should
> reflect the fact that is a fork.
It should print at least one more copyright holder by comparison to
the original version.
Somehow, it reflects the fact that is a fork.
>
> [snip, does not apply to current packages in debian-archive]
>> At the bug removal, it talks about a "restricted code for quality
>> assurance"
>
>> * Begin restricted code for quality assurance.
>> *
>> * Warning: you are not allowed to modify or to remove the
>> * Copyright and version printing code below!
>> *
>> * If you modify cdrecord you need to include additional version
>> * printing code that:
>> *
>> * - Clearly states that the current version is an
>> * inofficial (modified) version and thus may have bugs
>> * that are not present in the original.
>> *
>> * - Print your e-mail address and tell people that you
>> * will do complete support for this version of cdrecord.
>> *
>> * - Tell the users not to ask the original author for
>> * help.
>
>> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=193619>
>
>> I'm not sure at all this is GPL-compatible or DFSG-compliant. Does
>> someone already look into that question?
>> One thing is sure, it has nothing to do with GPL 2c.
>
> Redirecting to debian-legal.
>
> The intent of the code is the same as the "tainted"-stuff in the Linux
> Kernel, to make it easy to differ between original Code and modified
> code especially in bug-reports.
I get the intent, I'm more puzzled about the method "you are not
allowed to modify or to remove the [...] code below".
(PS: Please add me in Cc:)
--
Mathieu Roy
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