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Re: Artistic2?



On Fri, 6 May 2005 10:00:12 +0200 David Schmitt wrote:

> On Friday 06 May 2005 02:28, John Goerzen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently came across ths Artistic 2 (2.0beta5) license at:
> >
> > http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/LICENSE/Artistic-2
> >
> > I couldn't find any previous reference to a DFSG discussion about
> > it. Would it be considered DFSG-free?

Well, from a first reading, it looks like a DFSG-free license.
However it seems to be GPL-incompatible.

Note however that I may be too tired to draw the right conclusions...
And, as usual, IANAL.

[...]
>                                 Definitions
> 
> "Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the
>           Originator(s), and derivatives of that collection of files
>           created through textual modification.

The only weird thing is this insisting on "textual modification".
What if I make a non-textual modification (let's say the Package
includes an image)?

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