On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:14:48 +1100 Riley Baird wrote: > Hi -legal! Hello Riley! > > There is some forum software called YaBB which is released under the > "YaBB Public License". It is evidently non-free, but I want to convince > them to change it. I hope you are going to persuade them to adopt a well-known and clearly DFSG-free license (such as the GNU GPL v2, which is apparently the base from which they derived their non-free "YaBB Public License"). > I've made a list of problems that I've found, but > before I ask upstream to change the license, can someone please make > sure that I haven't missed any? I have just read through the license text and I haven't spotted any further issues, besides the ones you mentioned, except for one: the license text is clearly derived (in part) from the GNU GPL v2 text. Creating a modified version of the GPL is permitted [1] by the FSF, but the preamble has to be dropped (but it was not!) and the instructions-for-use have to be modified to not mention GNU (but they were not modified enough!). Only the requirement to change the license name seems to be complied with. [1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL [...] > Thanks, [...] You're welcome and good luck with your persuading effort! Bye. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ fsck is a four letter word... ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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