On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 10:27:25PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > > In another reading, the license must allow some modifications and derived > > > works to be distributed, and §4 is an additional constraint. > > On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 07:31:36PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > I don't think this is a useful interpretation. "The only modification > > which may be distributed is changes in indentation" would pass, or even > > "the only modification allowed is the null modification". > > That conflicts with §4.
If #3 is interpreted as you suggest above, I don't see how it's a meaningful clause at all. Except for "under the same terms as the license of the original software", #3 becomes a complete subset of #4. Allowing "some modifications" is a useless no-op. Of course, the clause headers make the difference between #3 and #4 clear: #3 talks about Derived Works, and #4 about Integrity of The Author's Source Code. I think the "must allow *some* derived works" interpretation doesn't work at all with #4, and as the fundamental requirements for derived works are laid out in #3, I don't think there's any ambiguity. (However, I'm sure there's a lot of ambiguity in my paragraphs above. Hopefully that made some sense. :) -- Glenn Maynard
