Hello, this license is more liberal than the GPL. Are you linking against anything that is purely GPLed? Then we'd need to do some thinking. I could imagine that you could even relicense it as it also allows the "sublicensing", but this is beyond my legal understanding. I hope we don't need to clarify this.
For a redistribution with Debian (this is why you ask, no?) this is all not a problem. Debian does not require the GPL. Debian only requires to DFSG compliance - for a redistribution in 'main' this is. And the DFSG compliance is just fine with this license. Cheers, Steffen On 08/11/2010 02:32 AM, Scott Howard wrote: > Upstream has changed their license [1]. > > They no longer require the advertising clause: "In addition publicly > documented acknowledgment must be given that this software has been used if no > source code of this software is made available publicly." Does GPL's > requiring that the source code be publicly available make this license > compatible with GPL? > > > > [1]: > Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy > of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to > deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the > rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or > sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is > furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: > > The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in > all copies of the Software and its Copyright notices. In addition publicly > documented acknowledgment must be given that this software has been used if no > source code of this software is made available publicly. Making the source > available publicly means including the source for this software with the > distribution, or a method to get this software via some reasonable mechanism > (electronic transfer via a network or media) as well as making an offer to > supply the source on request. This Copyright notice serves as an offer to > supply the source on on request as well. Instead of this, supplying > acknowledgments of use of this software in either Copyright notices, Manuals, > Publicity and Marketing documents or any documentation provided with anyad > product containing this software. This License does not apply to any software > that links to the libraries provided by this software (statically or > dynamically), but only to the software provided. > > Please see the COPYING-PLAIN for a plain-english explanation of this notice > and its intent. > > THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR > IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, > FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL > THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER > IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN > CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. > > > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-fso-maint mailing list > pkg-fso-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-fso-maint > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
