On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:20:29PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Kumar Appaiah <[email protected]> writes: > > > Pardon me if I miss something, but is it prudent to alter upstream's > > license without their permission in the source? Granted, it's just an > > address change which may not change the constraints and restriction > > imposed by the license itself, but I wonder if this would actually be > > the right thing to do, rather than have upstream fix it. > [snip] > > The first two paragraphs establish the license, and are normative. The > third paragraph isn't normative. It doesn't affect the terms and > conditions of the work; it's just a pointer to where you can find the > complete license.
Fair. Thank you for the explanation. Kumar -- "I would rather spend 10 hours reading someone else's source code than 10 minutes listening to Musak waiting for technical support which isn't." (By Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
