Re: Revised JasPer License
Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 06:40:59PM -0800, Michael Adams wrote:
> > Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person (the "User")
> > obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
> > "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without
> > limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, and/or
> > sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
> > furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
>
> Nearly there, but let's get "distribute modified versions" in here
> while we're at it.
I wouldn't say that is strictly necessary, though it is nice. The
"and/or" clause covers it well enough, and is similar to many things
in Debian already. If we worried about something like Pine happening
again, Debian would have to get rid of a lot of software.
Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu
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