-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 My personal stance on this:
1.) That clause is annoying. 2.) The Original BSD license is sub-optimum 3.) It's still Free Software. I don't think this specific package poses any problem in terms of gNewSense's goals - author attribution is something that is very clearly approved by the FSF and most Free Software users/activists agree. The "issue" for RMS is not that the liceses is non-free, just that it has the unforseen consiquence when bundled into a work of MANY such licensed projects that it becomes unweildly, but doesn't actually restrict a user's right to use, modify or redistribute the work. That's my two cents. :D Lee McCafferty wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have been checking licences for the PVF project, and am 99% done with > Main libc section. The final license (libcrypt-blowfish-perl > <http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/libc/libcrypt-blowfish-perl/libcrypt-blowfish-perl_2.10-1/copyright>) > seems to me to me to be an Original BSD-style license; that is to say > that it can be freely used in every sense, but contains a version of the > "obnoxious BSD advertising clause" > (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html). I have filed a bug (#00110 > <http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00110>), but I feel that this could > probably be closed very quickly once we have established our position on > this particular issue. Do we consider this to be a problem or not? > > I may be making a mountain out of a mole-hill, but I think it is worth > discussing non-copyleft licenses with issues such as this and coming to > a conclusion on how to treat them. It is obviously an issue for RMS, but > is it reason enough to remove a potentially useful piece of otherwise > free software? > > Lee > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGyaocjbEXCxKVc6YRAq1hAKCXnPStHPjZYsKPzjvDWlGPxdvN9ACfeZHV t/L0jerOYpCpgk+E47B9ls0= =R+hU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
