xmemos license change progress
Hello,
After a staircase with Gilbert Therrien <gilbert@ican.net>, author of
xmemos, finally he was kind enough to include the XForms add-on to the
xmemos "license" (see attach). I quote it because the README doesn't
explicitly state that "xmemos is GPL".
On the other hand, I received this modification as a tarball from the
author. If debian-legal has a concensus that the license is DFSG-free
now, is it satisfactory that I would use this tarball as the pristine
source regardless I couldn't find the same tarball anywhere else
"publicly distributed"?
What do people think?
Fuji^
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xmemos (c) Gilbert Therrien 1997.07.17
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xmemos is a little notepad
It has been compiled and tested on Linux 2.0.28
with Xforms version 0.86.
The Makefile should need little modification before compilation.
You can find Xforms at: http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms
To use xmemos
- untar the tar file : tar -xvzf xmemos-?.?.?.tar.gz
- set the variables in the Makefile
- compile xmemos : make
- install xmemos : make install
- create a .xmemos dir in your home directory : cd ~; mkdir .xmemos
Disclaimer:
This program is in ongoing development, thus it can have problems
(bugs) which I will correct as soon as I am aware of them and have
time. I assume no responsibility for loss of data or problems
associated with the supporting programs (Xforms and other
software) that may occur.
This version also has limitations. I'm sure you will find some :)
I welcome feedback for changes. This is my first program using
Xforms.
Licence:
The licence is public, free,
but you must give all the files when you distribute xmemos.
You may link this software with XForms (Copyright (C) by
T.C. Zhao and Mark Overmars) and distribute the resulting
binary, under the restrictions in clause 3 of the GPL, even
though the resulting binary is not, as a whole, covered by
the GPL. You still need a separate licence to do so from the
owner(s) of the copyright for XForms, see the XForms
copyright. You are not required to include this paragraph in
the license for deriviatives of this software."
See also the xforms licence.
Gilbert Therrien
gilbert@ican.net
PS: You can write to me in french or english.
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