Re: Endorsements
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 15:54, Walter Landry wrote:
> Jeff Licquia <licquia@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 14:40, Walter Landry wrote:
> > > 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.
I think you're confusing the statement about the endorsements with the
endorsements themselves.
The statement about the endorsements would be something like:
---
This document contains a list of endorsements. These endorsements are
intended to identify documents which properly express the author's
views. If you modify this document, carefully read the endorsements and
remove the ones that do not give you explicit permission to make the
changes you're making.
---
(note: I am not Branden, this is an example, and probably not even a
good one.)
It would be a part of the copyright notice, and would be invariant along
with the rest of the copyright notice. The endorsements would be
somewhere else, and would be removable (and required to be removed under
certain circumstances).
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