[pkg-fso-maint] Bug#592544: Bug#592544: New license

[Steffen Möller]

Hello,

this license is more liberal than the GPL.  Are you linking
against anything that is purely GPLed? Then we'd need to
do some thinking. I could imagine that you could even
relicense it as it also allows the "sublicensing", but this
is beyond my legal understanding. I hope we don't need
to clarify this.

For a redistribution with Debian (this is why you ask, no?)
this is all not a problem. Debian does not require the GPL.
Debian only requires to DFSG compliance - for a
redistribution in 'main' this is. And the DFSG compliance is
just fine with this license.

Cheers,

Steffen


On 08/11/2010 02:32 AM, Scott Howard wrote:
> Upstream has changed their license [1].
>
> They no longer require the advertising clause: "In addition publicly
> documented acknowledgment must be given that this software has been used if no
> source code of this software is made available publicly." Does GPL's
> requiring that the source code be publicly available make this license
> compatible with GPL?
>
>
>
> [1]:
> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
> of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
> deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
> rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
> sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
> furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
>
> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
> all copies of the Software and its Copyright notices. In addition publicly
> documented acknowledgment must be given that this software has been used if no
> source code of this software is made available publicly. Making the source
> available publicly means including the source for this software with the
> distribution, or a method to get this software via some reasonable mechanism
> (electronic transfer via a network or media) as well as making an offer to
> supply the source on request. This Copyright notice serves as an offer to
> supply the source on on request as well. Instead of this, supplying
> acknowledgments of use of this software in either Copyright notices, Manuals,
> Publicity and Marketing documents or any documentation provided with anyad
> product containing this software. This License does not apply to any software
> that links to the libraries provided by this software (statically or
> dynamically), but only to the software provided.
>
> Please see the COPYING-PLAIN for a plain-english explanation of this notice
> and its intent.
>
> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
> IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
> THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER
> IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
> CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
>
>
>
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