Re: ITP: its4

[David Schleef <ds@stm.lbl.gov>]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 11:56:43PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Andreas Schuldei <andreas@schuldei.org> [20001106 00:29]:
> > * David Z Maze (dmaze@MIT.EDU) [001106 00:01]:
> > > Andreas Schuldei <andreas@schuldei.org> writes:
> > > AS> (c) You may build derived versions of this software under the
> > > AS> restrictions stated in Section 2, Restrictions, of this license. The
> > > AS> derived versions must be clearly marked as such and must be called by
> > > AS> a name other than ITS4. ITS4 and "It's The Software, Stupid!" are
> > > AS> trademarks of Cigital, Inc.
> > > 
> > > This sounds awfully similar to the license pine ships with; this
> > > paragraph means, among other things, that naming the Debian package
> > > 'its4' is a violation of the license.  It's unclear to me whether it
> > > could be included in Debian at all, even in non-free.
> 
> > We do not derive anything. We compile and distribute the software
> > and include the license, as permitted. That is not the problem.
> 
> We *do* derive since you made changes to the upstream.  However,
> renaming the package should solve this problem.


I suggest itls (It's The License, Stupid!)




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