Hello legal,
So I stumbled upon this rather interesting case of a software licensed by
The release notes for 3.0. r5 also mentions:
"
This program is licensed under GPL-2. Please note also that if you're
using the program for a paid or free public service you need mention
where you got this program from.
"
It seems that the author is trying to prevent people from setting up webpages using this
software as a backend without crediting it. It seems like a reasonable think to ask for.
My question is regarding DFSG compliance around this, I believe there is nothing wrong with
it, but the fact that upstream expose is as GPL-2 seems a little misleading, as it's not plain GPL-2 and I think we should change something in d/copyright to address this.
Are you aware of other software that are in a similar situation? I would like to see what
d/copyright looks like. For this case the package was accepted by ftp-master with a
d/copyright that states it as GPL-2.
Regards,
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Samuel Henrique <samueloph>