On Jan 5, 2004, at 3:23 PM, Daniel Macks wrote:
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:23:15AM +0000, William Dell Wisner wrote:It's just like GNU except that
I have a package (lft) that uses its own unique open source license
("MainNerve Public License for Open Source":
http://www.mainnerve.com/os/mpl.html). While this license reads as a
pretty typical open source license, it does not actually fit any of the
available keywords for the License: field. It's not OSI approved, it's
not restrictive, it's not commercial, it's not public domain.. it's
"other open source", but there is no such keyword available.
What, then, shall we do with it?
It sounds a lot like GNU. But dunno for sure.
Did you try emailing them? Give them the info about the available fink license types and see if they'd be satisfied with one of them. This has worked well for me for other weirdly-licensed programs.
a) Mainline has the right to make modifications to the software that are substantially similar to user modifications, but need not release it's modifications under an open-source license. Technically, the FSF has the right to release gcc in closed source form (as it owns the copyright to all modifications, as well as to the original work. However, it's not likely that they would exercise such a right.
b) the license states numerous times that modifications to the source code (including such modifications as required by the fink package) shall be clearly labeled as modifications, and that the version number should reflect the fact that it has been modified.
c) you cannot use "Mainline" in advertising literature. (reverse of the BSD advertising clause?)
It's not appropriate to use 'GPL", as the user might be tempted to distribute modified sources, without alerting the recipient of such modifications.
Jeremy
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