@ 26/09/2005 18:39 : wrote Jacobo Tarrio : > El lunes, 26 de septiembre de 2005 a las 19:34:00 +0200, Claus > Färber escribía: > >>>> a. place your modifications in the Public Domain or >>>> otherwise make them Freely Available, for example by >>>> allowing the Copyright Holder to include your modifications >>>> in the Standard Version of the Library. >>> This goes beyond copyleft and is non-free, because it violates >>> DFSG#3, restricting the distribution of derivative works. >> Why? All you have to do is to make the modifications "freely >> available". Putting them under a license that is compatible >> (e.g. "Public Domain") >> seems to be enough. > > Because the DFSG say that the license must allow distribution of > modified works under the same terms as the original one. > > However, this one forces modified works to be in the Public > Domain, which is nowhere near the terms of the original work. > > Moreover, forced distribution of modified versions is considered > non-free (one should be allowed to create private modifications). >
Not only this. One should also be allowed to create modifications, and distribute said modifications, only obligated to pass source code for the recipiend of those modifications. (IIRC this is the /raison/ /d'etre/ of the "desert island" test.) -- HTH, Massa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
