Bug#655224: ITP fsmark - bug 655224: License restriction for lib_timing.c DFSG compliant?
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012, at 11:11 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> 11 * additional restriction that results may published only if
> 12 * (1) the benchmark is unmodified, and
> 13 * (2) the version in the sccsid below is included in the report.
I think with professional legal assistance the intent of this
restriction could be phrased as a "permissive additional term"
under GPLv3 section 7(e). What the author seems to be doing is
treating "SCCSID" as a trademark of sorts and wanting to restrict
how this trademark is used in published results. So long as the
author is OK with someone making a derived work and publishing
results from that work using some other name, then probably
there is probably a reasonable compromise here.
IANAL, TINLA
Clark
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