Re: upstream has license which is an edited GPL

2008-08-20 Thread Ben Finney
Stanislav Maslovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:42:13PM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > > 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 preamb

Re: upstream has license which is an edited GPL

2008-08-19 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
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

Re: upstream has license which is an edited GPL

2008-08-06 Thread Ben Finney
Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Stanislav Maslovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > = > > Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies > > of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. > > = > > > > So, ev

Re: upstream has license which is an edited GPL

2008-08-05 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
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

Re: upstream has license which is an edited GPL

2008-08-04 Thread Walter Landry
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stanislav Maslovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I was going to package CDDE [1] but noticed that upstream ships it > > with a license file which is GPL v.2 without the preamble and the > > appendix > […] > > > I have e-mailed the upstream explaining

Re: upstream has license which is an edited GPL

2008-08-04 Thread Ben Finney
Stanislav Maslovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 07:20:09PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > You are, as far as I can tell, free to obtain a verbatim copy of > > the GNU GPL as described in the specific license grant (e.g. > > "either version 2 of that License, or, at your

Re: upstream has license which is an edited GPL

2008-08-04 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 07:20:09PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > So, even if they preserve the copyright notice, they still may not > redistribute changed copies of the GPL document. Only verbatim copies > may be redistributed. That is true. That is what I ment. > The recommended way to license a wo

Re: upstream has license which is an edited GPL

2008-08-04 Thread Ben Finney
Stanislav Maslovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was going to package CDDE [1] but noticed that upstream ships it > with a license file which is GPL v.2 without the preamble and the > appendix […] > I have e-mailed the upstream explaining that changing GPL and > removing its copyright is not

Re: upstream has license which is an edited GPL

2008-08-03 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
oops, the link to ITP forgotten: [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=493593 -- Stanislav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

upstream has license which is an edited GPL

2008-08-03 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
Hello, I was going to package CDDE [1] but noticed that upstream ships it with a license file which is GPL v.2 without the preamble and the appendix so it starts from GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION end ends with