Re: Revised JasPer License
Walter Landry wrote:
>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.
I agree that it isn't strictly necessary, especially given the clause "deal in
the Software without restriction", which is pretty vague and broad (and
appears intended to cover anything not explicitly listed).
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