On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:58:11PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 02:51:39PM +0200, Igor Stroh wrote: > > could someone check this licence[1]? I believe it's somewhat BSD-like, > > but I'm not quite sure. It's the licence of python-gtk2-tutorial. Since > > there's no description of what kind of licence this actually is, I'm afraid > > the ftp-masters won't like it... > > This is a GPL-incompatible, copyleft, DFSG-free license. In other > respects it is a MIT clone, not a BSD one; this is essentially a > copyleft MIT license.
There's no such thing as a copyleft MIT license. Fundamental to the concept of the MIT/BSD license is that they're permissive--they let you do whatever you want, placing very few restrictions on the work. "Permissive" and "copyleft" are conflicting adjectives for a license, in my opinion. This license is incompatible with the licenses of both Python (BSDish with a changelog clause) and GTK2 (LGPL), and so will prevent incorporating any code snippets from the source of those libraries into this documentation, or vice versa. That may not be a problem, since this is a tutorial and not a reference, though it would prevent the incorporation of this tutorial with such a reference. I agree that it's GPL-incompatible, that it's DFSG-free, and that it sucks badly. -- Glenn Maynard
