Re: Opinions on "Paul Hsieh derivative license"
Ben Finney wrote: > Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 The MyServer Team >>> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify >>> it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by >>> the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or >>> (at your option) any later version. > > So, with this, the terms require that the redistributor must license > under the terms of the GPL, with no further restrictions. > >>> The superFastHash hash function [is] released under the Paul Hsieh >>> derivative license [...] > > If this license requires restrictions additional to those in the GPL, > then it is GPL-incompatible and cannot be redistributed under either > license. > >>> Paul Hsieh derivative license >>> >>> [...] Use and redistribution is limited to the following >>> conditions: >>> >>> * One may not create a derivative work which, in any way, >>> violates the Paul Hsieh exposition license described above on >>> the original content. >>> >>> [...] >>> Paul Hsieh exposition license >>> [...] >>> >>> * The redistributor must fully attribute the content's >>> authorship and make a good faith effort to cite the original >>> location of the original content. > > This restriction is additional to the GPL. The result is > GPL-incompatible and cannot be redistributed under either license. > >>> * The content may not be modified via excerpt or otherwise >>> with the exception of additional citations such as described >>> above without prior consent of Paul Hsieh. > > This restriction is additional to the GPL. The result is > GPL-incompatible and cannot be redistributed under either license. > >>> * The content may not be subject to a change in license >>> without prior consent of Paul Hsieh. > > This quite clearly is not compatible with the GPL: both licenses > require that the work be distributed only under their terms, thus both > cannot be simultaneously satisfied. > >> Is this DFSG-free? > > Worse, I don't think the work can be legally redistributed at all. > > Any of the problems noted above in the text of the Paul Hsieh > Exposition License make the combined work unredistributable, since one > cannot satisfy both of GPL and the Paul Hsieh Exposition License > simultaneously. > Thanks very much Ben and Don. I'll contact Paul Hsieh to see if he'd be willing to re-license it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Opinions on "Paul Hsieh derivative license"
I am packaging MyServer (http://bugs.debian.org/288655) and have a question about the license in one file: > /* MyServer > Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 The MyServer Team > This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or > (at your option) any later version. > > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, > but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the > GNU General Public License for more details. > > You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License > along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software > Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA > */ > > /* > The superFastHash hash function is authored by Paul Hsieh > (http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/bio.html) > > It's released under the Paul Hsieh derivative license > (http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/weblicense.html) > */ > The Paul Hsieh licenses referred to are: > Paul Hsieh derivative license > > The derivative content includes raw computer source code, ideas, opinions, > and excerpts whose original source is covered under another license and > transformations of such derivatives. Note that mere excerpts by themselves > (with the exception of raw source code) are not considered derivative works > under this license. Use and redistribution is limited to the following > conditions: > > * > > One may not create a derivative work which, in any way, violates the > Paul Hsieh exposition license described above on the original content. > * > > One may not apply a license to a derivative work that precludes anyone > else from using and redistributing derivative content. > * > > One may not attribute any derivative content to authors not involved in > the creation of the content, though an attribution to the author is not > necessary. > Paul Hsieh exposition license > > The content of all text, figures, tables and displayed layout is copyrighted > by its author and owner Paul Hsieh unless specifically denoted otherwise. > Redistribution is limited to the following conditions: > > * > > The redistributor must fully attribute the content's authorship and > make a good faith effort to cite the original location of the original > content. > * > > The content may not be modified via excerpt or otherwise with the > exception of additional citations such as described above without prior > consent of Paul Hsieh. > * > > The content may not be subject to a change in license without prior > consent of Paul Hsieh. > * > > The content may be used for commercial purposes. Is this DFSG-free? I couldn't find any references to this license in the archives. Thanks, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JavaCC Licensing - now a pure BSD license.
The authors of JavaCC have now re-licensed the JavaCC code under a pure BSD license (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html). This should clear up the doubts some organisations have had regarding the "Nuclear" and "Weapons" clauses in the original license, and the export restrictions imposed therein. Many thanks to the following authors who gave their permission for the relicensing: Sun Microsystems Inc, Sreenivasa Viswanadha and Kees Jan Koster. The updated source code has now been committed to the JavaCC CVS repository. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
