Re: Is "VIGRA Artistic License" licence free and GPL-compatible ?
El lunes, 26 de septiembre de 2005 a las 19:34:00 +0200, Claus Färber escribía:
> >> a. place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise
> >> make them Freely Available, for example by allowing the
> >> Copyright Holder to include your modifications in the Standard
> >> Version of the Library.
> > This goes beyond copyleft and is non-free, because it violates
> > DFSG#3, restricting the distribution of derivative works.
> Why? All you have to do is to make the modifications "freely available".
> Putting them under a license that is compatible (e.g. "Public Domain")
> seems to be enough.
Because the DFSG say that the license must allow distribution of modified
works under the same terms as the original one.
However, this one forces modified works to be in the Public Domain, which
is nowhere near the terms of the original work.
Moreover, forced distribution of modified versions is considered non-free
(one should be allowed to create private modifications).
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Jacobo Tarrío | http://jacobo.tarrio.org/
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