Re: Question about the old BSD license and GPL (gtkipmsg)
<Chloe Hoffman snipped: no attributed text, no need for CC>
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Raul Miller wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 02:37:43PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
>> Debian's already doing this to some small extent by calling it Debian
>> GNU/Linux.
>
>No, we're not.
Then why IS it Debian GNU/Linux instead of Debian Linux?
>To see the difference, compare this to
>
>Debian GNU/Linux -- This product includes software developed by the Apache
>Group for use in the Apache HTTP server project (http://www.apache.org/).
Does base.tgz include any Apache code?! We can do the OpenBSD thing and
split hairs about what's truly Debian and what's optional: I don't think
either one of us wants to do that. Would something like:
Debian <portname> (code contributed by various authors listed in CREDITS,
available on request)
work for you? It is included in the ad, just in a separate file that may
or may not be looked at by the recipient. Since there are over 3,000
individual copyright interests involved, I'm thinking that due diligence
would be covered if it were a separate list: nobody would want to deal
with the whole of the list in a single ad (as if there were any official
Debian ads...)
>The way I read it, to be allowed to distribute Apache, every time
>we mention web serving in a debian context, if that context could be
>construed as advertising we're obligated to include that Apache sentence.
>[And we've got similar requirements for a variety of other potential
>features.]
The way I read it is that Debian's moral duty is to see that credit is
given where it's due anyhow. The mantra of "Debian is just volunteers"
gets thrown about often when a DD perk is mentioned: with a DFSG free
license, the author certainly isn't getting paid for their efforts. It's
time that Debian recognizes that they aren't the only volunteers in the
chain, and credit for authorship is not just a perk: it's the law in this
case.
>
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Here is wisdom. Let him that hath wisdom count the number of the BSD: for
it is the number of a man; and his number is VI VI VI.
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Who is John Galt? galt@inconnu.isu.edu, that's who!
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