On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:46:38AM -0700, Kevin Rosenberg wrote: > 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! Thanks for following up! > ;;; Copyright (c) 1989 - 1999 Mark Kantrowitz. All rights reserved. > ;;; 1999 - 2002 Mark Kantrowitz and Marco Antoniotti. All > ;;; rights reserved. > > ;;; Use, copying, modification, merging, publishing, distribution > ;;; and/or sale of this software, source and/or binary files and > ;;; associated documentation files (the "Software") and of derivative > ;;; works based upon this Software are permitted, as long as the > ;;; following conditions are met: > > ;;; o this copyright notice is included intact and is prominently > ;;; visible in the Software > ;;; o if modifications have been made to the source code of the > ;;; this package that have not been adopted for inclusion in the > ;;; official version of MK-DEFSYSTEM as maintained by the Copyright (silly nitpick) It's not necessary to capitalize "copyright". > ;;; holders, then the modified package MUST CLEARLY identify that > ;;; such package is a non-standard and non-official version of > ;;; MK-DEFSYSTEM. Furthermore, it is strongly encouraged that any > ;;; modifications made to MK-DEFSYSTEM be sent via e-mail to the > ;;; MK-DEFSYSTEM maintainers for consideration of inclusion in the > ;;; official MK-DEFSYSTEM package. Just a suggestion, but they might want to say "the Software" instead of "MK-DEFSYSTEM", since they already went to the trouble of defining "the Software" in the first paragraph. But my suggestion is certainly not relevant to the DFSG. > ;;; THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, > ;;; EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF > ;;; MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. > ;;; IN NO EVENT SHALL M. KANTROWITZ AND M. ANTONIOTTI BE LIABLE FOR ANY > ;;; CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, > ;;; TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE > ;;; SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. > > ;;; Except as contained in this notice, the names of M. Kantrowitz and > ;;; M. Antoniotti shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote > ;;; the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written > ;;; authorization from M. Kantrowitz and M. Antoniotti. This license looks DFSG-free to me. I'd like to thank the authors/copyright holders for revisiting the license. I know it was some time and trouble, and I appreciate you making this effort. Any other opinions on the above license from my fellow debian-legal geeks? -- G. Branden Robinson | The last Christian died on the Debian GNU/Linux | cross. branden@debian.org | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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