Re: Endorsements
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 14:40, Walter Landry wrote:
> Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:
> > 5) There will be text, in the form of a brief notice, following the
> > copyright notice, which mentions endorsements. Removing that text
> > will not be permitted, unfortunately (yes, this is invariant text).
>
> You realize, of course, that this will make DFCL stuff unusable with
> GPL'd code. Do you really want to do that?
If the endorsements statement is considered to be a part of the
copyright notice, then this is not true. We should probably provide the
exact text in the license so that this isn't seen as a loophole.
> I feel that endorsements should be separate from the work. Something
> along the lines of "This manual may have changed since I wrote it. I
> endorse the FooBar Manual with MD5 hash ... On most systems, you can
> check the MD5 hash of this document by doing XYZ." The author could
> even attach it to the document. If someone changes the document, then
> the hash will not match. If they change the corresponding MD5 hash in
> the endorsement, then you've got fraud.
This could be done with an integrated endorsement. "I, Jeff Licquia,
endorse the source to all source copies of this manual for which a
detached PGP signature appears at
http://www.licquia.org/texts/foobar-manual/endorsements.";
In that case, you'd probably want to add verbiage to the effect that the
endorsement doesn't need to be removed for modified copies, since you've
spelled out the limits of your acceptance in the endorsement itself.
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