Ben Finney wrote: > Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 The MyServer Team >>> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify >>> it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by >>> the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or >>> (at your option) any later version. > > So, with this, the terms require that the redistributor must license > under the terms of the GPL, with no further restrictions. > >>> The superFastHash hash function [is] released under the Paul Hsieh >>> derivative license [...] > > If this license requires restrictions additional to those in the GPL, > then it is GPL-incompatible and cannot be redistributed under either > license. > >>> Paul Hsieh derivative license >>> >>> [...] Use and redistribution is limited to the following >>> conditions: >>> >>> * One may not create a derivative work which, in any way, >>> violates the Paul Hsieh exposition license described above on >>> the original content. >>> >>> [...] >>> Paul Hsieh exposition license >>> [...] >>> >>> * The redistributor must fully attribute the content's >>> authorship and make a good faith effort to cite the original >>> location of the original content. > > This restriction is additional to the GPL. The result is > GPL-incompatible and cannot be redistributed under either license. > >>> * The content may not be modified via excerpt or otherwise >>> with the exception of additional citations such as described >>> above without prior consent of Paul Hsieh. > > This restriction is additional to the GPL. The result is > GPL-incompatible and cannot be redistributed under either license. > >>> * The content may not be subject to a change in license >>> without prior consent of Paul Hsieh. > > This quite clearly is not compatible with the GPL: both licenses > require that the work be distributed only under their terms, thus both > cannot be simultaneously satisfied. > >> Is this DFSG-free? > > Worse, I don't think the work can be legally redistributed at all. > > Any of the problems noted above in the text of the Paul Hsieh > Exposition License make the combined work unredistributable, since one > cannot satisfy both of GPL and the Paul Hsieh Exposition License > simultaneously. >
Thanks very much Ben and Don. I'll contact Paul Hsieh to see if he'd be willing to re-license it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
