Re: RFS: spim
Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi@gmail.com> writes:
> On Monday 19 October 2009 3:42:31 am Ben Finney wrote:
> > Perhaps the copyright holder doesn't realise that, if he grants
> > additional permissions that “welcome packaging and redistribution”,
> > that *is* changing the license (at least, the license as received by
> > Debian). The license terms become a union of what he's initially
> > written plus that extra permission statement.
>
> Being not on the DL mailing list I don't know if there's been any
> movement.
As I understand it, ‘debian-legal’ has discussed as far as it can go for
now. The movement needs to come from the copyright holder.
> I talked to Larus (CC'd here) about it and he said he'd be willing to
> send a statement directly to the list.
Far better than a separate statement in email, the full license terms
should simply be updated in a new release of the work. That way, every
recipient has access to the full terms under which they can act.
Then the new license terms can be discussed as a whole here on
‘debian-legal’ to see what problems remain.
Choosing a well-understood, widely-known free-software license (e.g. GNU
GPL or Expat terms) would make this much simpler, of course.
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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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