On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 09:53:20AM -0600, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 09:33:37AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I repeat: the file renaming requirement is not DFSG-free, and you > > wanting it to be so will not make it so. DFSG 4 does not permit it. > > 4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code > > The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in > modified form _only if the license allows the distribution of > "patch files" with the source code for the purpose of modifying > the program at build time. The license must explicitly permit > distribution of software built from modified source code. > *** The license may require derived works to carry a different > name or version number from the original software. *** > (This is a compromise. The Debian group encourages all authors to > not restrict any files, source or binary, from being modified.) > > Note the ***...*** section.
The license may require derived *** works *** to carry a different name or version number from the original software. Note the ***...*** section. A filename is not the name of a work any more than an MD5 checksum is. -- G. Branden Robinson | Human beings rarely imagine a god Debian GNU/Linux | that behaves any better than a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | spoiled child. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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