discuss: Documentation licensing
Subject:
Re: Documentation Licensing
From:
Rick Moen ####@####.####
Date:
12 Apr 2004 22:11:31 -0000
Message-Id: <20040412221128.GB2020@linuxmafia.com>
Quoting Terrence Enger ####@####.####
> Yes, my concern was with Debian policy rather than with law.
Ah.
> Looking again, I see that The Debian Free Software
> Guidelines (DFSG)
> <http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines>, point 4
> "Integrity of The Author's Source Code", includes the
> sentence, "The license may require derived works to carry a
> different name or version number from the original
> software." This is at least in the direction that I would
> like to see, even if it does not apply to the author's name.
Yes, this bit of Debian Policy just acknowledges that it's OK per DFSG
if the licence requires all third-party forks to be called something
different. The Apache HTTPd licence has such a clause, for example.
(You can maintain a fork of Apache HTTPd, but then you may not still
call it Apache.)
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Cheers,
Rick Moen Bu^so^stopu min per kulero.
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