Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Aug 28, 2009, "Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix -" <omp...@eircom.net> wrote:
Rubén RodrÃguez Pérez wrote:
Its problem is the absence of *explicit* permission for
modifications:
Permission is granted to all sentient beings to use this software,
to make copies of it, and to distribute those copies
The four freedoms don't look like they are being challenged, or am I wrong?
Given that copyright prohibits modification, and the license doesn't
grant permission for modifications, I think it's not enough for freedoms
#1 and #3 to be respected :-(
(3) any unapproved changes in functionality are either
(i) only distributed as patches
or (ii) distributed as a new program which is not called 9wm
and whose documentation gives credit where it is due
this provides for a change ..................
it expects a change .....
you need to do (i) or (ii) depending on how you implement the change
it is like mozilla