Very well guys. :) Looks like everybody is happy. Just give me some time and I will make the changes to the license and make a new release on CLOCC.
Stay tuned for the announcement. Cheers > Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:29:14 -0500 > From: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Marco Antoniotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mail-Followup-To: debian-legal@lists.debian.org, > [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marco Antoniotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Disposition: inline > Mail-Copies-To: nobody > X-No-CC: I subscribe to this list; do not CC me on replies. > X-UIDL: "D~!!GpU"!5dB"!Q4F"! > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:46:38AM -0700, Kevin Rosenberg wrote: > > I've been in contact with the authors and Copyright holders to > > mk-defsystem. They are agreeable to changing the license as > > follows. My opinion is that it is DFSG-compatible, but they'd like the > > opinion of the the experts before changing the license. > > > > Thanks! > > Thanks for following up! > > > ;;; Copyright (c) 1989 - 1999 Mark Kantrowitz. All rights reserved. > > ;;; 1999 - 2002 Mark Kantrowitz and Marco Antoniotti. All > > ;;; rights reserved. > > > > ;;; Use, copying, modification, merging, publishing, distribution > > ;;; and/or sale of this software, source and/or binary files and > > ;;; associated documentation files (the "Software") and of derivative > > ;;; works based upon this Software are permitted, as long as the > > ;;; following conditions are met: > > > > ;;; o this copyright notice is included intact and is prominently > > ;;; visible in the Software > > ;;; o if modifications have been made to the source code of the > > ;;; this package that have not been adopted for inclusion in the > > ;;; official version of MK-DEFSYSTEM as maintained by the Copyright > > (silly nitpick) > > It's not necessary to capitalize "copyright". > > > ;;; holders, then the modified package MUST CLEARLY identify that > > ;;; such package is a non-standard and non-official version of > > ;;; MK-DEFSYSTEM. Furthermore, it is strongly encouraged that any > > ;;; modifications made to MK-DEFSYSTEM be sent via e-mail to the > > ;;; MK-DEFSYSTEM maintainers for consideration of inclusion in the > > ;;; official MK-DEFSYSTEM package. > > Just a suggestion, but they might want to say "the Software" instead of > "MK-DEFSYSTEM", since they already went to the trouble of defining "the > Software" in the first paragraph. > > But my suggestion is certainly not relevant to the DFSG. > > > ;;; THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, > > ;;; EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF > > ;;; MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. > > ;;; IN NO EVENT SHALL M. KANTROWITZ AND M. ANTONIOTTI BE LIABLE FOR ANY > > ;;; CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, > > ;;; TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE > > ;;; SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. > > > > ;;; Except as contained in this notice, the names of M. Kantrowitz and > > ;;; M. Antoniotti shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote > > ;;; the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written > > ;;; authorization from M. Kantrowitz and M. Antoniotti. > > This license looks DFSG-free to me. I'd like to thank the authors/copyright > holders for revisiting the license. I know it was some time and > trouble, and I appreciate you making this effort. > > Any other opinions on the above license from my fellow debian-legal geeks? > > -- > G. Branden Robinson | The last Christian died on the > Debian GNU/Linux | cross. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Friedrich Nietzsche > http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | > Press C-c C-c here for "application/pgp-signature" data -- Marco Antoniotti ======================================================== NYU Courant Bioinformatics Group tel. +1 - 212 - 998 3488 715 Broadway 10th Floor fax +1 - 212 - 995 4122 New York, NY 10003, USA http://bioinformatics.cat.nyu.edu "Hello New York! We'll do what we can!" Bill Murray in `Ghostbusters'.
