Re: [DebianGIS] is this license GPL2 compatible?
Ouch, I was still on the Live DVD kick! Wrong topic, pulling my head
back in. Sorry for the noise.
Regards,
Tim Bowden
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 16:28 +0800, Tim Bowden wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 20:17 +1200, Hamish wrote:
> > [sorry for the cross-posting, I'm casting the idea net wide]
> >
> > is this license GPL2 compatible?
> > is this license DFSG compatible? *
> >
>
> I'd assume for now it isn't. Nobody has done a license review, and it
> has non free java on it. We will need to work out quick how we are
> going to comply with the license terms of the GPL's stuff we have on
> there, given the customisations we've presumably done.
>
> Regards,
> Tim
>
> > "There is no warranty whatsoever. Use at your own risk.
> >
> > This code may be freely redistributed under the condition that the copyright
> > notices are not removed. You may distribute modified versions of this code
> > UNDER THE CONDITION THAT THIS CODE AND ANY MODIFICATIONS MADE TO IT IN THE
> > SAME FILE REMAIN UNDER COPYRIGHT OF FOOCORP, BOTH SOURCE AND OBJECT CODE ARE
> > MADE FREELY AVAILABLE WITHOUT CHARGE, AND CLEAR NOTICE IS GIVEN OF THE
> > MODIFICATIONS."
> >
> >
> > the bit I am concerned about is the effect of "all your modifications are
> > copyright us". (which is fine with me, but is it fine with the GPL?)
> >
> > I seem to recall seeing something very similar in the past, is this a known
> > standard BSD/MIT/X variant?
> >
> >
> > [*] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
> > My attitude is that if it passes those tests, I/we can integrate
> > it into our project without much worry.
> >
> >
> > ?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Hamish
> >
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