Hi
While working on a package (not yet part of Debian), I noticed the following
copyright and license notice:
# This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use,
# modify, copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of
# the GNU General Public License v.2, or
This is allowed, but it is not an exception or modification to the GPL. You
cannot remove permissions from the GPL under any circumstances. Rather,
this is allowed because the GPL is, in no way, a trademark license. If
anything, the above comment merely clarifies that fact. While many projects
are
Mihai Moldovan writes:
> While working on a package (not yet part of Debian), I noticed the following
> copyright and license notice:
Thank you for posting the full text of the grant of license.
> # This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use,
> # modify, copy, or redis
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 07:14:43AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Mihai Moldovan writes:
>
> > While working on a package (not yet part of Debian), I noticed the following
> > copyright and license notice:
>
> Thank you for posting the full text of the grant of license.
>
> > # This copyrighted mat
* On 01/30/2018 02:08 PM, Daniel Hakimi wrote:
> This is allowed, but it is not an exception or modification to the GPL. You
> cannot remove permissions from the GPL under any circumstances. Rather, this
> is
> allowed because the GPL is, in no way, a trademark license. If anything, the
> above co
Mihai Moldovan writes:
> So for the time being, can I just tag this as GPL-2+ as usual without
> mentioning the trademark restriction part in debian/copyright?
To clarify: As said in this thread, it is not a restriction (because it
imposes no restriction that isn't already there in the absence o
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