On 6/13/07, Danny Backx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> dannypc: {489} svn diff license.html
> Index: license.html
> ===================================================================
> --- license.html (revision 0)
> +++ license.html (revision 0)
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> +<HTML>
> +<HEAD>
> +<TITLE>CeGCC License<TITLE>
> +</HEAD>
> +<BODY>
> +<img src="../images/banner1.png" alt="CeGCC cross compiler for
> PocketPC">
> +<H1>CeGCC License</H1>
> +<p>
> +The licensing of free software products is not an easy issue.
> +Aggregated products like cegcc are even more complicated to describe
> accurately.
> +<p>
> +To understand all this, you'll need to know about the different types
> of material involved,
> +and about the way their licenses work.
> +The collection of all that is the CeGCC licensing.
> +<p>
> +I see three types of material :
> +<ul>
> + <li>software that is used to develop, but that doesn't itself
> get distributed with the application being developped
> + <li>software that ends up in the application being developed
> + <li>documentation
> +</ul>
> +<p>
> +CeGCC is an aggregation of several free software products,
> +and you'll see that they come with different licenses.
> +A well known license is the GNU Public License (also known as GPL),
> +it is often described as <i>viral</i>,
> +meaning that it tends to infect software.
> +<p>
> +It is important to understand that only the software in the first
> bullet above
> +carries such licenses.
> +Because of the fact that this software never ends up in the application
> being developped,
> +the viral aspect doesn't apply.
> +<p>
> +The only other thing you basically need to know is that the licenses
> for each original piece
> +of software from which cegcc is aggregated still apply.
> +All the software added specifically by the cegcc project authors
> carries the most liberal
> +license we can apply; see the source files themselves.
> +<p>
> +If this all looks very confusing,
> +maybe we can convince you by showing that projects like
> +<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc";>gcc</a>
> +also follow this approach.
> +Here is an example from the GCC documentation :
> +<pre>
> +The GNU Compiler Collection is free software. See the file COPYING for
> +copying permission. The manuals, and some of the runtime libraries, are
> +under different terms; see the individual source files for details.
> +</pre>
> +<p>
> +<H2>Links about licensing</H2>
> +<ul>
> + <li><A
> HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation";>
> + Aggregation</a>
> + <li><a
> href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatDoesCompatMean";>
> + Compatible with GPL</a>
> + <li><a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html";>GPL
> FAQ</a>
> +</ul>
> +</BODY>
> +</HTML>
>
Typo: s/developped/developed/
OK with that.
Cheers,
Pedro Alves
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