On 28 October 2012 19:13, Carnë Draug <carandraug+...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone > > we have a couple of files in Octave Forge with non-standard licenses. > This is bad. Being able to give it a recognisable name not only eases > our organisation but also its acceptance by downstream package > maintainers such as Debian. From Debian's upstream guide "Please do > not write your own license text if you can at all avoid it. Depending > on your wishes, the GPL, LGPL or a BSD-style license will most likely > be appropriate, and it is far easier to tell whether something is > allowed if we can look at past discussions of the same text. " > > I believe that in most cases such user-made licenses are not made > because there's no appropriate license out there, but out of > indifference for the subject and belief on others better part. For > example, some functions in the image package have the following > license "This code has no warrany whatsoever. Do what you like with > this code as long as you leave this copyright in place" which could > easily be replaced by something such as the simplified BSD, FreeBSD or > ICS license which I have already suggested to the original author. > > I'd like to propose that we no longer accept such non-standard > licenses and propose this list > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses as > the ones that are acceptable. Does anyone oppose to such change? > > Carnë
After 1 week there has been no opposition. >From now on, only code under a license listed on http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses will be released through Octave Forge. Carnë ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Central: Instant, anywhere, Remote PC access and management. Stay in control, update software, and manage PCs from one command center Diagnose problems and improve visibility into emerging IT issues Automate, monitor and manage. Do more in less time with Central http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein12331_d2d _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
