On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:59:33 +0200 Andreas Barth wrote: > * Adam Borowski (kilobyte@angband.pl) [060914 15:55]: > > On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:37:11PM +0300, Markus Laire wrote: > > > I'm concerned about the licensing of cdrkit[1,2] aka debburn, > > > which was recently forked from cdrecord. > > > > > > The current license seems to be GPLv2 + additional restrictions > > > which IMHO is not right because GPLv2 doesn't allow any such > > > additional restrictions. > > > > > > An example from libscg/scsi-linux-ata.c[3]: > > > <skip> > > > * Warning: you may change this source, but if you do that > > > * you need to change the _scg_version and _scg_auth* string below. > > > * You may not return "schily" for an SCG_AUTHOR request anymore. > > > > Idea: what about reverting this single file to the last version > > under real GPL (as opposed to GPL-with-unmodifiable-sections)? > > This is not GPL-with-unmodifiable-sections, it is just "you need to > document it if you change something". Which seems pretty fair to me, > and I currently don't see the issue with GPL there. It doesn't look fair to me. It's a restriction on modification that forbids some possible behavior of the program. It prevents me to create a modified version (with, say, some bugs fixed) that still behaves like the original one with respect to those spat-out strings. It prevents me to create a modified version which is a drop-in replacement for the original one (because a front-end would be able to distinguish the modified version from the original one). And such a restriction is not present in the (actual) GNU GPL v2. -- But it is also tradition that times *must* and always do change, my friend. -- from _Coming to America_ ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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