======= The problematic? clause =============== Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization (”You”) obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files covered by this license (the “Software”) to use the Software as part of another work; to modify it for that purpose; to publish or distribute it, modified or not, for that same purpose; to permit persons to whom the other work using the Software is furnished to do so; subject to the following conditions: the above copyright notice and this complete and unmodified permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software; You will not misrepresent modified versions of the Software as being the original. =============================================== Francesco Poli wrote: > What if I want to modify the library itself and distribute the result by > itself? This is not permitted, AFAIU. > Why have I to be annoyed by this "wrap it in some silly container work" > requirement? > > Better to adopt the actual Expat license > (http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt), IMHO. I see your point and I agree. But the author deliberately modified Expat license to include the above terms. So the questions is: "Is this DFSG-free or not?" Please bear in mind that IBPP is really to be used in FlameRobin's packaging, not by itself. dam -- Damyan Ivanov Creditreform Bulgaria divanov@creditreform.bg http://www.creditreform.bg/ phone: +359(2)928-2611, 929-3993 fax: +359(2)920-0994 mob. +359(88)856-6067 dam@jabber.minus273.org/Gaim
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