Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 14:40, Walter Landry wrote:
> > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 5) There will be text, in the form of a brief notice, following the
> > > copyright notice, which mentions endorsements. Removing that text
> > > will not be permitted, unfortunately (yes, this is invariant text).
> >
> > You realize, of course, that this will make DFCL stuff unusable with
> > GPL'd code. Do you really want to do that?
>
> If the endorsements statement is considered to be a part of the
> copyright notice, then this is not true. We should probably provide the
> exact text in the license so that this isn't seen as a loophole.
Hmm... How about this
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This work is free content; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the Debian Free Content License as published by
the Debian project.
This work may have been modified. <author> only endorses a work
generated from source which contains a detached PGP signature file
matching a PGP public key found at http://foobar.org/public_key
Despite this endorsement, this work is distributed in the hope
that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. See the Debian Free Content License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the Debian Free Content License
along with this program; if not, visit the Debian project at
http://www.debian.org.
I am very close to feeling that this just clarifies what the author
did, and what they didn't do. That is, it is just a clarification of
copyright status. I'm still a little uneasy, but it may go away.
Regards,
Walter Landry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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