Le mercredi 30 janvier 2013 à 02:03 +0100, Giulio Paci a écrit : > During a package review it came out that the software license includes this > statement: > "Should a provision of no. 9 and 10 of the GNU General Public License be > invalid or become invalid, a valid provision is deemed to have been agreed > upon which comes closest > to what the parties intended commercially. In any case guarantee/warranty > shall be limited to gross negligent actions or intended actions or fraudulent > concealment." > > I contacted the original author and he explained that this statement was a > request of their legal department to avoid the possibility that third party > can change the > license of the software (I guess a misinterpretation of the GPL-2 clauses 9 > and 10). Unfortunately the author is not working anymore for the copyright > holder and I am > having some trouble contacting someone that is allowed to remove the > exception. > > What is your opinion about this exception? Is this exception acceptable for a > Debian package in main?
It looks like complete nonsense to me. Since it starts with “should a provision be invalid or become invalid”, and these provisions have no reason to become invalid (§9 and §10 are purely informational), I don’t see it a problem, though. However, regarding compatibility with other GPL components (if there are any), I wouldn’t be so sure. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1359550365.27214.614.camel@pi0307572
