Mackenzie Morgan <maco...@gmail.com> writes: > On Monday 19 October 2009 3:42:31 am Ben Finney wrote: > > Perhaps the copyright holder doesn't realise that, if he grants > > additional permissions that “welcome packaging and redistribution”, > > that *is* changing the license (at least, the license as received by > > Debian). The license terms become a union of what he's initially > > written plus that extra permission statement. > > Being not on the DL mailing list I don't know if there's been any > movement.
As I understand it, ‘debian-legal’ has discussed as far as it can go for now. The movement needs to come from the copyright holder. > I talked to Larus (CC'd here) about it and he said he'd be willing to > send a statement directly to the list. Far better than a separate statement in email, the full license terms should simply be updated in a new release of the work. That way, every recipient has access to the full terms under which they can act. Then the new license terms can be discussed as a whole here on ‘debian-legal’ to see what problems remain. Choosing a well-understood, widely-known free-software license (e.g. GNU GPL or Expat terms) would make this much simpler, of course. -- \ “… one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was | `\ that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful | _o__) termination of their C programs.” —Robert Firth | Ben Finney <b...@benfinney.id.au> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
