Re: acceptable restrictions on modification

2003-01-28 Thread David Turner
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 04:53, Oohara Yuuma wrote: On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 19:56:44 -0500, Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:12:49PM -0500, David Turner wrote: The GPL forbids removing code from interactive programs which displays copyright notices. Yes,

Re: acceptable restrictions on modification (was: proposed licence change for moodle)

2003-01-28 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 19:56, Branden Robinson wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:12:49PM -0500, David Turner wrote: [RMS doesn't make decisions for Debian...] As much feedback during the FSF's public comment period on GNU FDL 1.2 revealed, there are many people who disagree with his

Re: acceptable restrictions on modification

2003-01-27 Thread Oohara Yuuma
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 19:56:44 -0500, Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:12:49PM -0500, David Turner wrote: The GPL forbids removing code from interactive programs which displays copyright notices. Yes, and in my opinion this is a defect in the license. You

Re: acceptable restrictions on modification

2003-01-27 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 06:53:28PM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote: The GPL forbids removing code from interactive programs which displays copyright notices. Yes, and in my opinion this is a defect in the license. You mean this? | If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice

Re: acceptable restrictions on modification (was: proposed licence change for moodle)

2003-01-27 Thread David Turner
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 19:56, Branden Robinson wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:12:49PM -0500, David Turner wrote: Unfortunately, DFSG doesn't discuss what sorts of modifications can be restricted. Implicitly, no sort of restriction on modification is permitted, except those already

acceptable restrictions on modification (was: proposed licence change for moodle)

2003-01-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:12:49PM -0500, David Turner wrote: Unfortunately, DFSG doesn't discuss what sorts of modifications can be restricted. Implicitly, no sort of restriction on modification is permitted, except those already mandated by copyright law (removing someone's copyright notices