Derick Rethans wrote: > On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: >>>4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code >>>[..] The license may require derived works to carry a different name or >>>version number from the original software. [..] >>>===== >>> >>>I didn't looked at the rest of the license, but I don't think this point >>>renders xdebug non-free. >> >>This is much broader. For example, I cannot write a derivative called >>"Brian's Xdebug" or "Xdebug manual" or even "A third-party manual for >>Xdebug". > > The manual is no problem, that's not a derived product.
It could very well be a derivative; a manual might want to copy some of the code for illustrative purposes, or copy various comments. > Packaging for > any kind of distribution is also no problem, as there is no derived > product involved. As mentioned in another of my messages to this thread, Debian packages often contain differences from the upstream version. - Josh Triplett
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