Re: BSDish licenses without explicit modification permission

2020-08-16 Thread Richard Fontana
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 12:25 AM Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 1:55 AM Paul Wise wrote: > > > Does anyone have any thoughts about this? > > I talked to one of RedHat's lawyers and they mentioned that they have > dealt with this problem too and concluded that these licenses were >

Re: BSDish licenses without explicit modification permission

2020-06-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 1:55 AM Paul Wise wrote: > conserver package is in non-free because of this issue but it appears a > lot of people did not notice the lack of modification permission. ... > https://www.conserver.com/pipermail/users/2019-July/msg1.html Due to the interpretation provided

Re: BSDish licenses without explicit modification permission

2020-05-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 1:55 AM Paul Wise wrote: > Does anyone have any thoughts about this? I talked to one of RedHat's lawyers and they mentioned that they have dealt with this problem too and concluded that these licenses were intended to cover modification. The current wording of the initial

BSDish licenses without explicit modification permission

2019-07-05 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, There are several packages (including GCC and Linux) in Debian that contain files released under several different BSDish licenses that are missing the explicit modification permission. Many of these files contain comments indicating that they likely have been modified. I think that these