Did you ever get a follow-up answer from them? ~tom
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 1:41 PM Tom Callaway <[email protected] wrote: > Ugh. If they had stopped at Yes, we'd be fine, but this additional > information makes it seem like they do not permit modification of the > dataset at all, outside of compression, CRLF, or character encoding. > > Can you ask them this, so that we don't have ambiguity here? > > Do you grant permission to modify the datasets within the GAP transitive > group library (as permitted by the Artistic 2.0 License)? We do not > have any immediate need to do this, but a library without the permission > to modify is not considered a Free Software component. You can > require that modified versions do not refer to themselves by the name > given to the unmodified original work, this would not make the library > non-Free Software. > > If they need to talk to me, I'm happy to engage. > > ~tom > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:31 PM Jerry James <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 8:59 AM Jerry James <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I have sent a query upstream. I will report back when I get a reply. >> >> I used your wording, Tom, to ask if this was the intended meaning: >> > "If software claims to use or include the GAP transitive groups >> > library, you cannot modify the datasets. If you modify the datasets, >> > you can no longer claim that software to be using or including the GAP >> > transitive groups library.” >> >> Upstream replied: >> >> Yes. You may compress (if lossless) but you may not devise a different >> storage format, renumber points, rearrange groups, rename files, >> reformat the lines, etc. (I do not care about changing CRLF or >> character encoding.) >> >> I hope this does not cause problems for packagers, as (I think) after >> all you take the existing files. >> >> >> I am taking the "Yes" to mean that we are good to go. Regards, >> -- >> Jerry James >> http://www.jamezone.org/ >> >
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