On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:53:39 +1100 Ben Finney wrote: > Guillaume Yziquel <guillaume.yziquel@citycable.ch> writes: > > > I've noticed a software with a custom licence. > > Which software work is that? > > > Seems to roughly adhere to DFSG (section 4 and 6 may not...): > > > > http://www.cdsmodel.com/cdsmodel/cds-disclaimer.page > > For reference in this thread, here is the text of the license found at > that URL at the current time: Thanks, Ben. > > ===== > ISDA CDS Standard Model Public Licence > > Version 1.0 [...] > 4. Attribution Rights. > > (a) You must retain in their original locations, in any copies of the > ISDA CDS Standard Model, [...] > (ii) all copyright, patent, or trademark notices from the Source Code of > the ISDA CDS Standard Model, as well as any notices of licensing and any > descriptive text identified therein as an "Attribution Notice." This sounds like the infamous GFDL's "Invariant Sections": if I understand correctly, any "descriptive text" which is "identified" as an "Attribution Notice" must be preserved in its original location and (it seems) cannot be modified. If the clause really means this, then I think any software package licensed under these terms fails DFGS#3, whenever it includes such attribution notices. I also share the doubts and objections expressed by Walter Landry in his reply. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/progs/scripts/pdebuild-hooks.html Need some pdebuild hook scripts? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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