Re: SWIG license change to GPLv3, wording of debian/copyright?

[Torsten Landschoff]

Hi Charles,

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 08:18:21AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
  Does anybody think it is wrong to summarize in debian/copyright that SWIG
  is GPLv3 with parts being under MIT or BSD license instead of putting in
  a full copy? It is my understanding that GPLv3 is the most restrictive
  license of the bunch.
 
 The GPL adds restrictions but does not cancel the terms of the MIT and BSD
 licenses, so their requrirement that ‘Redistributions in binary form must
 reproduce the above copyright notice…’ still fully applies: you have to quote
 them entirely.

Thanks for your feedback. I updated the copyright file and uploaded swig 2.0
minutes ago.

Greetings, Torsten


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Re: SWIG license change to GPLv3, wording of debian/copyright?

[Charles Plessy]

Le Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:26:43PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff a écrit :
 
   http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-swig/branches/swig2.0/LICENSE-UNIVERSITIES
 
 Instead I would rather refer to common-licenses, but the texts of the license
 in there do not match word-by-word with BSD/MIT.
 
 Does anybody think it is wrong to summarize in debian/copyright that SWIG
 is GPLv3 with parts being under MIT or BSD license instead of putting in
 a full copy? It is my understanding that GPLv3 is the most restrictive
 license of the bunch.

Dear Torsten,

The GPL adds restrictions but does not cancel the terms of the MIT and BSD
licenses, so their requrirement that ‘Redistributions in binary form must
reproduce the above copyright notice…’ still fully applies: you have to quote
them entirely.

Have a nice day,

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Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan


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