Bug#39524: marked as forwarded (GPL is incompatible with XForms)
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has caused the Debian bug report #39524,
regarding GPL is incompatible with XForms
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) thor@colybrand.com.
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From: Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org>
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cc: Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org>
Subject: GPL is incompatible with XForms
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:29:35 -0400
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Package: xldlas
Version: 0.85-2
As you may know, the GPL is not compatible with XForms and
packages that depend on XForms need to use another license or
contain some sort of exception clause.
Since the upstream author of this package has released the code
under the GPL, the intentions are good and he/she/they should be
receptive to adding an exception clause. I brought this up on
debian-legal to find an exception clause that people could agree
on. This is the result, which you may feel free to use as a
suggestion to the upstream author:
---
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
+ You may link this software with XForms (Copyright (C) by T.C. Zhao and
+ Mark Overmars) and distribute the resulting binary, under the
+ restrictions in clause 3 of the GPL, even though the resulting binary is
+ not, as a whole, covered by the GPL. (You still need a separate license
+ to do so from the owner(s) of the copyright for XForms, however). If a
+ derivative no longer requires XForms, you may use the unsupplemented GPL
+ as its license by deleting this paragraph and therefore removing this
+ exemption for XForms.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
---
Note that I added the "+" sign here to indicate the added clause
to the GPL. Remove them from the actual license.
Thanks,
Peter Galbraith <psg@debian.org>
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