On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:42:13PM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 11:40:19PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > Stanislav Maslovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > One thing that I have to note also that after this standard header > > > the author writes: "For more details see the file COPYING." which is > > > the changed GPL. > > > > I would expect the explicit word of the license grant "For more > > details see the file COPYING" to indicate the explicit wishes of the > > copyright holder, and hence have significance in determining what the > > license is. > > In this particular case of CDDE I believe that the author simply made a > mistake. That was, perhaps, his first project under GPL. He did not > realize that the GPL preamble and appendix were inseparable parts > of the GPL document. For instance, his project page on Freshmeat [1] > explicitely states that CDDE 0.2.0 is under GPL. > > The fact that he did not change any of GPL terms and conditions > in his edited license and kept the name of the license intact > also shows this. > > > It might be that, since the copyright holder has explicitly referenced > > that document for specific terms, you cannot legally just substitute > > the correct GPL document in place of their copyright-violating > > document. Of course, you cannot legally redistribute the > > copyright-violating document either. > > I am still waiting for his reply. If he does not answer, I think a > possible solution is to fork, assuming that the upstream is MIA and > then correcting his mistake. > > [1] http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdde/
I have received a reply from the author. That was indeed his first project and somehow he made that mistake. Problem solved! PS Will package it soon and then ask for sponsorship here :) -- Stanislav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
