Re: Freeware Public License (FPL)

Charles Plessy writes: > Le Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 11:21:37AM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : > > Ian Jackson writes: > > > > > I'm afraid you'll have to go back to the authors/copyrightholders > > > and get them to fix the licence for this

Re: Freeware Public License (FPL)

Le Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 11:21:37AM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : > Ian Jackson writes: > > > I'm afraid you'll have to go back to the authors/copyrightholders and > > get them to fix the licence for this particular program. > > Preferably, convince the copyright

Re: Freeware Public License (FPL)

Ian Jackson writes: > I'm afraid you'll have to go back to the authors/copyrightholders and > get them to fix the licence for this particular program. Preferably, convince the copyright holders that the reliable option is an existing, well-understood, known

Re: Freeware Public License (FPL)

Jörg Frings-Fürst writes ("Freeware Public License (FPL)"): > a short question: is this license DFSG compatible? Sadly there isn't permission to modify. I think this is probably unintentional. I'm afraid you'll have to go back to the authors/copyrightholders and get them to fix the licence for

Re: Freeware Public License (FPL)

2016-10-29 18:11 GMT-02:00 Ben Finney : > > Because no other DFSG freedoms are granted, those remain reserved to the > copyright holders. > > So a work under this license would be non-free. I agree. I can't see rights for modify the source code. This and other rights must be

Re: Freeware Public License (FPL)

Jörg Frings-Fürst writes: > a short question: is this license DFSG compatible? The DFSG does not apply to licen texts in isolation. It applies to works for distribution in Debian. A particular license is only one aspect of the work to consider. > Freeware Public

Freeware Public License (FPL)

Hello, a short question: is this license DFSG compatible? Many thanks CU Jörg [quote] Copyright (C) 1998, 2009 Paul E. Jones Freeware Public License (FPL) This software is licensed as "freeware."  Permission to distribute this software in source and binary forms,