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Thomas Kahle posted on Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:58:58 -0600 as excerpted: |
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> I just added the license 'bertini' to the non-free group. Bertini is a |
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> math software distributed in source form but with restriction on |
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> redistribution (no fee is allowed, no modifications may be |
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> redisitributed). The way I read clause 2, I think we are allowed to |
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> distribute the source code on the mirrors. The ebuild is |
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> sci-mathematics/bertini which I'll add soon. |
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[From the license] |
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> 2. Conveying Verbatim Copies. |
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> You may convey verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you |
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> receive it, in any medium, provided [... etc] |
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> You may not charge a fee for any copy that you convey, and you may not |
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> offer support or warranty protection for a fee. |
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I read clause 2 the same way you did. |
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> 3. Conveying Modified Versions. |
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> You may modify the Program for your private use only. You may not |
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> convey, in any manner, a modified version of the Program without written |
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> consent of all Authors of the Program. |
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Does this allow us to create and distribute (separate, as gentoo does) |
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patches, or not? I'm unclear on that. |
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Clearly those patches would be based on and derived from the covered |
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work, but (once beyond uncopywritably trivial) remain their own |
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copywritable work. As long as they're distributed as separate patches |
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we /may/ be fine as we're not "conveying" a modified version per se, but |
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I'm not sure how to interpret that "in any manner" phrase, and given |
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that, I'd definitely be more comfortable with a qualified legal opinion, |
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or at least getting foundation approval. |
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Or will we not be patching (or sed-ing, etc) at all, with a warning to |
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other devs in the ebuild to be sure? IOW, are we basically treating it |
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as we would an ebuild for a proprietary binary, except here it does |
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happen to be building from source, but with NO changes at all? If that's |
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the case, then I see no problems with it. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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