On Wed, Nov 29, 2000, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: > The program by default pops up a splash saying 'This is the official version > of X obtainable in source and binary form from Y' - justs popups up for 3 > seconds or something not to obnoxious. > > If the source code (not build parameters) are changed you are required to > have the message popup with 'This is an UNOFFICIAL version of X. The > official version can be obtained from Y.' - again for ~3 seconds.
I think this breaks the DFSG, because it simply prevents to remove the popup code. > Further, we have no intention of inhibitting the free flow of modified > version of the source or binaries, we merely want the user of derived works > to be made aware that this is no longer a version approved by us although it > is based off of work by us. > [...] > We want this warning prominently visible b/c unless the user knows to look > they are not going to root through help files and documentation to see if > the program has been modified. And of course, if they know to look, they > probably know the program has been modified. > [...] > The reason for wanting this is because the company I work at does not want > our product to have the quality impared and redistributed without the user > knowing about it. One solution I may suggest is to require any modified version to have a fully different name. The Apache project is using such a license for their webserver: * 5. Products derived from this software may not be called "Apache" * nor may "Apache" appear in their names without prior written * permission of the Apache Group. You might find this solution acceptable, since it is DFSG compatible. Regards, Sam. -- Samuel Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://sam.zoy.org/> for DVDs in Linux screw the MPAA and ; do dig $DVDs.z.zoy.org ; done | \ perl -ne 's/\.//g; print pack("H224",$1) if(/^x([^z]*)/)' | gunzip