On 12/06/15 23:22, Walter Landry wrote:
Charles Plessy<ple...@debian.org> wrote:
Here are a few comments about the license.
- point 3) is poorly worded, but assuming it is well-intented, it is Free.
I would strongly disagree here. Requiring documentation of any sort
in addition to the source code is a big step. This is not a minor
thing.
I don't think requiring that some documentation is provided with the
source code, makes it unfree.
However, it could be intended to mean anything from "Please don't strip
comments from the code" or "Keep the doc/ folder from the repository
when producing a src tarball" to "Include any documentation ever written
related to modifying the original work" (a patch howto, an emacs manual?).
If the licensor has a copy of Knuth's TAOCP (ie. it's "available
documentation"), and it describes something on-topic for modifying the
original work (eg. the work uses linked lists, described in Chapter 2)
then the Licensor agrees to provide a machine-readable copy of TAOCP. ∎
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