Re: Possible copyright violation wrt SNNS
Package: snns
Severity: important
Hi Stephen,
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 03:49:54PM -0500, Stephen R. Gore wrote:
> I've been doing sparc binary builds for non-free, and reading the
> copyright/changelog files as I go. I have a question wrt SNNS.
>
> From the license:
>
> "In contrast to the GNU license we do not allow modified copies of our
> software to be distributed. You may, however, distribute your
> modifications as separate files (e.g. patch files) along with our
> unmodified SNNS software.
You are right :( It seems like I can't distribute the binaries created from
the modified source. The license does not at all refer to binary distributions
but I think I am in violation with the license here.
This opens a release critical but on snns until that is resolved. If somebody
from -legal agrees that I can't modify the source than we have to get this
out of potato...
> To me, it appears as if the software has been modified. (Indeed, I could
> even see where packaging the software might be considered "modifying", but
> I'm more concerned with the actual changes to source files.)
Agreed. We must be very careful with this.
Torsten (who hates maintaining non-free software *sigh*)
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