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.
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