Kevin Rosenberg wrote:
> Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > ;;; following conditions are met:
> > > ;;; o distribution of a modification to the Software have been
> > > ;;; previously submitted to the maintainers; if the maintainers
> > > ;;; decide not to include the submitted changes, the "full
> > > ;;; name" of the re-distributed Software ("MK:DEFSYSTEM", or
> > > ;;; "MAKE:DEFSYSTEM", or "MK-DEFSYSTEM") must be changed.
I've been in contact with the authors and Copyright holders to
mk-defsystem. They are agreeable to changing the license as
follows. My opinion is that it is DFSG-compatible, but they'd like the
opinion of the the experts before changing the license.
Thanks!
;;; Copyright (c) 1989 - 1999 Mark Kantrowitz. All rights reserved.
;;; 1999 - 2002 Mark Kantrowitz and Marco Antoniotti. All
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;;; holders, then the modified package MUST CLEARLY identify that
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;;; MK-DEFSYSTEM. Furthermore, it is strongly encouraged that any
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