There are some specific modifications to the source code which go against the spirit of the project. They are NOT considered a derivative work, and distribution of executables containing them is strictly forbidden.
Ask your lawyer if this verbage makes legal sense...
Erm, I really should take the time to read it (I've done so a long time ago), but you mean that there is not a list of these "specific modifications" I assumed that there would be a list of what those mods are, for example removing the copyright warning screen, etc.
Regards,
Hans
On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 08:37:09 +0100, Hans de Goede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Christopher Stone wrote:
The MAME license is a joke....
Explain?
Regards,
Hans
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 22:28:47 -0800 (PST), Ken Arromdee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Mark Nipper wrote:
Also the derivative works clause. The license basically says "you can distribute derivatives, but we consider a derivative work to be _____". To be open source you have to be allowed to distribute derivatives according to the standard definition. You can't get around that by redefining derivative.
Just to be clear though it actually says: --- Derivative works are allowed, provided their source code is freely available. However, these works are discouraged.
I was alluding to this paragraph:
There are some specific modifications to the source code which go against the spirit of the project. They are NOT considered a derivative work, and distribution of executables containing them is strictly forbidden.
That's like saying "we consider a derivative work to be a work for which you have paid us a million dollars. See, we're open source, we allow derivative works". They could just as well redefine source code. "We don't consider files with the extension .c to be source code, so you can't distribute them, but we're open source, because we do let you distribute all the source code".
Which certainly isn't to say such works aren't allowed.
Well, you're allowed to *have* them, but distributing them is strictly forbidden.
Only that there are definitive restrictions placed on them.
If I only let you distribute my work after paying me a million dollars, that work is being allowed with restrictions too. So?
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