Re: One-line licence statement

2010-04-23 Thread Joey Hess
Simon McVittie wrote: > Not that I know of; judging by putting this wording into Google, only Joey > uses it. I called it "the ikiwiki basewiki license" above, but I don't think > that's necessarily a good way to refer to it out of context. The rest of > ikiwiki is not under this license (it's most

Re: One-line licence statement

2010-04-23 Thread Simon McVittie
(Summary of the thread for Joey's benefit: some software mentioned on debian-legal had a one-line license which was intended to be almost-public-domain, but failed to give explicit permission to copy and modify. Franck is talking to that software's author to get it relicensed in a DFSG way; I sugge

Re: Does this license meet DSFG?

2010-04-23 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: >> Is this intentional? > > No. Because the grant of licence DOES allow regrading, therefore what > any particular version of the GPL says is irrelevant. The recipient CAN > change the licence from GPL3 to GPL2 (or vice versa) because the *grant*