>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com> writes:
Richard> I'm curious if there are opinions on why "must retain the
Richard> above copyright notice immediately at the beginning of the
Richard> file" is consistent with the DFSG. This is one of a variety
Richard> of 1990s FreeBSD 3-clause BSD variants with such a feature.
Well, under DFSG 4, the license could have required that no
modifications be made to the source file at all:
> 4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code
> The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in
> modified form only if the license allows the distribution of "patch
> files" with the source code for the purpose of modifying the
> program at build time. The license must explicitly permit
> distribution of software built from modified source code. The
> license may require derived works to carry a different name or
> version number from the original software. (This is a compromise.
> The Debian group encourages all authors not to restrict any files,
> source or binary, from being modified.)
So, it would be DFSG compatible if the license required an unmodified
file be distributed that was patched at build time.
This is clearly a lot better than that, and appears to grant our users
the same freedoms as would be the case if DFSG 4 were needed.
So I'll toss it back to you:
which condition of the DFSG would be violated by this license?
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