Re: [Flamerobin-devel] License, again

[Milan Babuskov <milanb@kms.co.yu>]

Jacobo Tarrio wrote:
> > > 1. allow anyone to download, copy and redistribute FR source as it is.
> > > 2. if someone makes modifications for his own use, he is not obligated
> > > to publish them
> > > 3. if someone makes modifications and makes executable version
> > > available, he must make the modifications available to the same person
> > > he made executable version available to.
> > > 4. no warranty
> >
> > Alright. Please, folks on debian-legal, can you see any problem
> > including software with such licensing in Debian? Can you recommend a
> > license that satisfies the above points and is DFSG-free? To me it
> > seems like Expat plus point 3 above (but I can't legal-speek-phrase it).
>
>  The GPL itself covers these points. In principle, debian-legal discourages
> license proliferation.

GPL does cover it, but GPL requires that modifications are made public. 
We don't want that. We want that modifications only need to be disclosed 
to the person that you give executable to (point 3).

Do you suggest we make a modification to GPL? It would be GPL + few changes.

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