Re: GPL + question

2015-05-31 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:32:57AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: I think the problem here is the notion that a file necessarily has exactly one licence. Totally agree. [snip] So it is true that a downstream redistributor who does not change F cannot change the licence, because the only

Re: GPL + question

2015-05-31 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 31 May 2015 13:10:14 -0400 Paul Tagliamonte wrote: [...] They can do it because the license never changed, it was *just* distributed under a different set of terms (the GPLv2+ says you can distribute it as if it were GPLv3+ and everything is tidy -- it does *not* say you can yell

Re: [Pkg-pascal-devel] DFSG-ness of two

2015-05-31 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 31 May 2015 14:11:43 +0200 Paul Gevers wrote: [...] The second license appears to be clearly non-free: it fails to explicitly grant permission to copy, redistribute, and modify (it just talks about using, which is a vague term) Are you sure? Clause 3 says: 3) If you modify

Re: GPL + question

2015-05-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Tagliamonte writes (Re: GPL + question): They *can* since the work as modified *can* be distributed under the terms of the GPLv3+, *without* changing the original work's license, but the *file* can be distributed as GPLv3+, since that's the minimum license needed to comply with all parts.

Re: Re: DFSG-ness of two

2015-05-31 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, [I should have requested to keep pkg-pascal-devel@l.a.d.o in the CC] Both of those files allow the option of a modified LGPL. That being said, I acknowledge that cqrlog_1.9.0-1/src/RegExpr.pas doesn't allow this option. I must admit that I missed it so far that the file is (nearly

Re: [Pkg-pascal-devel] DFSG-ness of two

2015-05-31 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Francesco, On 29-05-15 23:07, Francesco Poli wrote: Second: Windows XP Theme Manager is freeware. You may freely use it in any software, including commercial software, provided you accept the following conditions: 1) The software may not be included into component collections and similar