On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 07:12:51AM -0500, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:24:44AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > [...] > > > 1. The version number will be modified as follows: > > > a. The first 3 components of the version number > > > (i.e <number>.<number>.<number>) will remain unchanged. > > > b. A new component will be appended to the version number to > > > indicate the modification level. The form of this component > > > is up to the author of the modifications. > > > > While DFSG4 does allow licenses that "require derived works to carry a > > different name or version number from the original software", this seems > > to go much further than that, since it requires keeping the original > > version number. > [...] > > I do not consider this to "go much further than that". The intention is > imho the one DFSG4 tries to carter for. The author wants: > a) derivatives being detectable as such. > b) derivatives have to keep out of xinetd's namespace. He wants to > forbid a derivative being numbered as xinetd 2.3.15, taking away the > official version number. What the license *says* is that a fork must retain the "2.3.15" version prefix for the rest of time. That's no good. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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