With asking to be attributed in a certain way, how is that different than a creative commons attribute part of the license? I think in the future I will just licensed the project itself Creative Commons BY SA. Thanks and take care. -mike
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Charles Plessy <[email protected]> wrote: > Le Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 02:05:15PM -0400, Scott Howard a écrit : > > > > I'm the maintainer of sandboxgamemaker, currently a contrib package > > because upstream's license is restrictive regarding content > > distribution. > > > > However, upstream has worked to make their license more permissive so > > that the package can be included in main. > > > > The new license is below [ > http://www.svn.kids.platinumarts.net/32pas32/trunk/LICENSE.txt]: > > > > "You are free to use and redistribute Platinum Arts Sandbox Free 3D Game > Maker > > (Sandbox) in binary and/or source code form if the following > > conditions are met: > > Dear Scott and Platinum Arts, > > I do not know if it is on purpose or if it is a simple omission, but the > license > does not allow modification of Sandbox, nor redistribution of modified > versions. > This is asked by the Debian Free Software Guideline #3: > > http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines > > For the advertisement clause (n°3), I know that Debian has traditionally > allowed some since the original BSD license had one, but in my personnal > opinion, they are borderline in respect of the DFSG #6 (The license must > not > restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of > endeavor). I see that in the clause for educators (n°7), the wording is to > ‘request’ to contact Platinum Arts. Perhaps the ‘must’ of the advertisement > clause could be reworded similarly? This brings a very similar message to > the > user, but (an maybe other readers may confirm) gives the ounce of > flexibility > necessary for making that point more in line with the spirit of the DFSG > #6, if > not with the practice. > > (By the way, although the infrastructure is not ready yet, and may take a > long > time, some maintainers of medical scientific packages are facing a similar > problem of having software under strong pressure for acknowledgement (in > that > case, the source of funding for the project), and we intend to solve this > by > adding better metadata to the package itself, which indicates what to > acknowledge, where to donate, where users can register, etc. This will take > time, but we think that it is a better way to support Upstream in return > for > the software they give us.) > > Have a nice thay, and many thanks to you and Platinum Arts for your efforts > with licensing ! > > -- > Charles Plessy > Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan > -- http://SandboxGameMaker.com Free Open Source 3D Game Maker / Game Design Software Check out http://PlatinumArts.Net ! It features movie reviews, stories, free video games and more!
