On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 05:53:14AM -0400, Walter Landry wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So this solves most of the issues, and we need to go through the QPL > > 3b again, but upstream feels it is a reasonable clause, and would > > like to keep it. > > I'm sure that anyone would love to have that kind of term in a > license. It still feels non-free to me.
Sure, but there is much less consensus about this one, so if a handfull of people feel it is non-free, i doubt it will come into play. > > Also the first modification, well, i am not overly confident that it > > is really needed, and i am sure my wording of it are abysmal, and i > > ask for some help here in finding some nice and concise wording > > which doesn't divert to much from the original. The old wording was : > > > > a. Modifications must not alter or remove any copyright notices > > in the Software. > > > > And i changed it to : > > > > a. Modifications must not alter or remove any copyright notices > > in the Software except by adding new authors. > > If I'm converting an interactive program to be non-interactive, I > still can't remove a hard-coded copyright string that pops up in an > "About" box. Bah. I doubt this is what was meant here, and i doubt this is going to be a problem all over. Friendly, Sven Luther
