Re: Advice on packaging SAGE
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- Subject: Re: Advice on packaging SAGE
- From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 18:01:53 -0700
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- In-reply-to: <20070531225253.GA17670@kunpuu.plessy.org> (Charles Plessy's message of "Fri, 1 Jun 2007 07:52:53 +0900")
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Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org> writes:
> It is exactly because it is anyway wrong to not cite authors that it is
> better to leave the requirement out of the licence. When we publish
> scientific articles, we do not put a disclaimer on the top saying "if
> you read this article, you must properly cite it if you re-use some
> results or concepts in your research."
> Having that kind or requirement in licences has multipls consequences:
> - It makes the software non-compliant to the DFSG.
Why? I don't see anything in the DFSG that says that licenses may not
require citing authors, and in fact many DFSG-free licenses require that
one preserve copyright statements or authorship information.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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