license for the webpages

1999-04-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman 

Corel asked me an interesting question today about the webpages: what
license do they have?

The reason they asked is that Corel wants to officialy support their
Desktop Linux (which is Debian based) and possible also Debian. To do
this they want to create a lot of webpages with information and would
like to use our webpages as a base for some of them and updating them
with their own information and changing the layout to fit their style.

IMHO they should be able to use anything unless the page explicitly said
it had a difference license, and I told them that. However this should
be resolved by the webteam and a license put on the webpages.

Wichert.

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Re: license for the webpages

1999-04-12 Thread Josip Rodin 
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 11:38:22PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Corel asked me an interesting question today about the webpages: what
> license do they have?

Last words of every single Debian web page is this text:

  See license terms

It's a link pointing to http://www.debian.org/license , that basically says:

 Copyright © 1997-1998 Software in the Public Interest (SPI)
 P.O. Box 1326
 Boston, MA 02117.

   Verbatim copying and distribution is permitted in any medium, provided
   this notice is preserved.

   You may translate these documents and their license into another
   language providing:
 * You do not deliberately change their meaning beyond changes meant
   to achieve a colloquial rendering in another language
 * Translations of the license must be clearly marked as
   translations, and the license in its original language shall
   continue to apply to all translations
 * In the case of hypertext pages, you must maintain a copy of the
   original page on the same site, and must provide a link from the
   translated page to its original.

   "Debian", The Debian Penguin Logo, "Open Hardware", and the Open
   Hardware Logo are trademarks of Software in the Public Interest, Inc.

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