Op di 04-03-2003, om 22:55 schreef Don Armstrong: > On Tue, 04 Mar 2003, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > Does this mean that you can do these things without paying a fee to > > upstream, or that you can only do these things if you don't charge a > > fee for doing so? > > As far as I can tell, the license isn't clear as to what is being done > 'without fee'. All of the similar "free" licenses I could find include > selling as the list of permisions, which make it obvious that the > 'without fee' means the original grant of permision is made without > payment expected. > > However, if we could get upstream to weigh in on this and/or clarify, > it would be good. >
Thanks! I will ask upstream for a clear explanation on this. > > This seems to be the same as the 3-clause BSD license's third clause. > > I believe negative advertising clauses are always OK. > > 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote > products derived from this software without specific prior > written permission. > > It's slightly different because it talks about advertising and > promotion versus endorsement or promotion of products. [Ie, it > seemingly restricts being able to list the upstream author in > connection with the original piece of software.] > > I don't think this should cause a problem for Debian unless upstream > views this clause as making us unable to identify upstream in > copyright files and on the web. > Okay. If anything comes up when I get an answer from the Xbae developers I will contact this list again. I suppose when the answers are clear I could enclose them into debian/copyright together with the original license. > > Don Armstrong Regards, Joop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>