GPL3 compatible?

2010-03-20 Thread Ludovico Cavedon
Hi, I was wondering whether this license statement is DFSG/GPL3 compatible. /* Copyright (C) 1997-2001 Ken Turkowski. turk_at_computer.org * * All rights reserved. * * Warranty Information * Even though I have reviewed this software, I make no warranty * or representation, either express

Re: GPL3 compatible?

2010-03-20 Thread Ben Finney
Ludovico Cavedon cave...@debian.org writes: The statement does not explicitly state that modifications are allowed, Yes. “may be used” is so vague as to be useless for these purposes, IMO. It certainly doesn't grant permission to redistribute modified versions of the work. but just says that

Re: GPL3 compatible?

2010-03-20 Thread Ludovico Cavedon
Ben Finney wrote: Right. The license statement as you present it does not grant anyone permission to redistribute modified versions, nor to re-license the work to other recipients, both of which would be needed for that change to be legal. Clear. The apparent intent of the author would be

Re: GPL3 compatible?

2010-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 03:45:51PM -0700, Ludovico Cavedon a écrit : Hi, I was wondering whether this license statement is DFSG/GPL3 compatible. /* Copyright (C) 1997-2001 Ken Turkowski. turk_at_computer.org * * All rights reserved. * * Warranty Information * Even though I have

Vagueness of what is ‘sub stantial’ in the Expat license.

2010-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:56:33AM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : The apparent intent of the author would be well served by the widely-understood and wholly free-software Expat license terms URL:http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt. As it stands, only the copyright holders in the work can make

Re: Vagueness of what is ‘substantial’ in the Expat license.

2010-03-20 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: I would like to make a small comment about the “Expat” license, that personally I would not recommend when proposing a relicensing, because of the following sentence: ‘The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all