Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > On 7/3/19 11:38 AM, Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > >> > >> Hi Waldek, > >> > >> at sourceforge you link to http://fricas.sourceforge.net/copyright.txt . > >> But this file is different from > >> https://github.com/fricas/fricas/blob/master/license/LICENSE.AXIOM . > >> > >> I think you should remove LICENSE.AXIOM and rather move > >> src/etc/copyright to /licence/LICENSE, since > >> > >> I just now realised that there is a copyright file under src/etc. > >> I find that a bit confusing. > > > > Well, LICENSE.AXIOM is original NAG licence. Among others it says: > > > > - Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > notice, > > ^^^^^^ > > > > One interpretation of the above is that we are not allowed to > > remove LICENSE.AXIOM (unless we remove all NAG provioded code). > > But I was not just saying "remove LICENSE.AXIOM", but rather to also > move /src/etc/copyright to /license/LICENCE. Nobody looks into /src/etc > for a license file.
Build process takes trunk.pp6/src/etc/copyright and embeds it into executable, so that ')copyright' can show it. For easy finding/viewing there is http://fricas.sourceforge.net/copyright.txt > > > This interpretation probably goes too far, but I think that it > > is better to keep the file. In open source project we have more > > contributors, so more licences. copyright.txt is supposed to > > be complete statement of _all_ involved licences. > > Yes. And why not moving that file to /license/LICENCE instead of > /src/etc/copyright.txt? > > The other thing is that if we remove LICENSE.AXIOM, we don't remove the > "notice". It is letter by letter included in copyright.txt. So how could > anyone claim, that we do not include the "copyright notice"? > > Why would the filename LICENSE.AXIOM matter? Well, lawyers can invent funny arguments. Current arrangement avoid need to _think_ about possible legal subtleties. Another thing is that keeping licence files as-is it is easier to people who want to check if anything changed. -- Waldek Hebisch -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/E1hifTe-0001L1-5T%40hera.math.uni.wroc.pl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
