Re: Endorsements

[Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu>]

Jeff Licquia <licquia@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.

Hmm...  How about this

    Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>

    This work is free content; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the Debian Free Content License as published by
    the Debian project.

    This work may have been modified.  <author> only endorses a work
    generated from source which contains a detached PGP signature file
    matching a PGP public key found at http://foobar.org/public_key

    Despite this endorsement, this work is distributed in the hope
    that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
    implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
    PURPOSE.  See the Debian Free Content License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the Debian Free Content License
    along with this program; if not, visit the Debian project at
    http://www.debian.org.

I am very close to feeling that this just clarifies what the author
did, and what they didn't do.  That is, it is just a clarification of
copyright status.  I'm still a little uneasy, but it may go away.

Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu


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