On Aug 31, 2009, Ali Gunduz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Alexandre Oliva<[email protected]> wrote: >> Given that copyright prohibits modification, and the license doesn't >> grant permission for modifications, I think it's not enough for freedoms >> #1 and #3 to be respected :-(
> AFAIK FSF doesn't see requirement of modifications to be only > distributed in form of patches as software freedom violation. That's my understanding as well, but that's not the issue. A patch, in as much as it is a derived work, requires permission from the copyright holder of the original work to be created and distributed. No such permission is granted, therefore neither the creation nor the distribution of such derived works are permitted. > http://gnuplot.cvs.sourceforge.net/gnuplot/gnuplot/Copyright?view=markup. See it says: * Permission to modify the software is granted but such a permission is missing in the 9wm license. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
