Re: BSD Protection License
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:39:29PM -0400, Simon Law wrote:
> 3. Modification and redistribution under closed license.
> You may modify your copy or copies of the Program, and distribute
> the resulting derivative works, provided that you meet the
> following conditions:
> a) The copyright notice and disclaimer on the Program must be reproduced
> and included in the source code, documentation, and/or other materials
> provided in a manner in which such notices are normally distributed.
> b) The derivative work must be clearly identified as such, in order that
> it may not be confused with the original work.
> c) The license under which the derivative work is distributed must
> expressly prohibit the distribution of further derivative works.
>
> Clause 3c apparently violates DFSG 3. Here, we are now allowed
> to distribute a derived work under the same terms as the license of the
> original software. This looks non-free to me.
It looks like the intent is to allow distributing modified versions as
long as you follow all of the conditions of section 3 *or* all of the
conditions of section 4. The license might not actually say that, though.
I wonder why an ugly mandatory-changelog clause was added. One reason I
like the BSD license is that it doesn't put a lot of requirements on code
reuse--no mandatory source release and no mandatory changelogs. (Besides,
good programming practices shouldn't be mandated by licenses.)
This license really has little to do with the BSD license, though. I think
claiming association with it is bordering on deceptive ...
--
Glenn Maynard
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